More works have been taking place on the Uckfield Line recently, though more specifically at Crowborough, where Network Rail (NR) is installing an accessible bridge with lifts and stairs that serve both platforms. This is under the Department for Transport's (DfT) Access for All scheme, and is due to be completed by Autumn 2022. Work commenced this year, and as of 12th March 2022, there was scaffolding supporting a crossing over the line for workers. Also the lifts shafts had been built. By Saturday 26th of the same month, the footbridge had been erected. Crowborough already has a footbridge to the north side of the station, but it only has steps, hence the need for an accessible bridge. This new one will eventually replace the current one, and is situated towards the south side just beyond the station canopy on platform 1. Hopefully those users on the front coach of a six or eight car train will not have to walk so far to reach the exit, once it is completed. At the moment, they have to walk the best part of platform 2, over the footbridge, and part of the way along platform 1! Eridge Station has already received the same treatment, only in stages. A new footbridge was installed by October 2020, plus the station canopies were refurbished. A lift was then installed on platform 1, whilst a ramp was built for the Spa Valley Railway side of the station across the disused trackbed of platform 3. This was completed by 16th February 2022, when senior railway figures came to visit such as Rail Minister Wendy Morton.
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