East Dulwich station is a rather charming if very run down station. It is amazingly busy and the nearly all ramped access has proved a god send when my young children travelled by prams everywhere. Over two years ago I met the rail operating company to ask about the five remaining steps being ramped over but such a ramp would have a slope greater than 1 in 20 – which I was told generally isn’t allowed due to the Disability Discrimination Act. I also wanted fences changed to make the prolific littering easier to manage.

A fortnight ago I met Network Rail and the TOC to see if they could consider a new ramp or lift and stairs to make the station fully accessible. They explained that various retaining walls have been moving signigicantly. That the very nice large tree has had to be lopped as it was causing the retaining wall problems.

The outcome. Network Rail are going to consider some options of what may or may not be possible. Lifts are expensive to maintain. A ramp would need to be very very long indeed.