Railway Stations: Access
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2025 to Question 86345 on Whitchurch Station: Access, when she plans to announce her Department’s decision regarding the stations selected for Access for All funding.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
We are committed to improving the accessibility of the railway and recognise the social and economic benefits this brings to communities.
Since 2006 the Access for All programme has installed accessible, step free routes at over 270 stations plus a range of smaller scale access improvements at around 1500 stations.
In May 2024, the previous government published a list of 50 additional stations selected for initial feasibility work.
Network Rail have now completed all 50 feasibility studies and we will shortly be announcing which of those stations will progress.
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