{"id":2253,"date":"2017-01-13T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2017-01-11T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:55:29","slug":"improving-access-to-waterloo-east-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/2253","title":{"rendered":"Improving Access To Waterloo East Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/photo\/5160428\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2267\" src=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick-459x300.jpg 459w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I am sure that many people will agree that access between Waterloo East Station and street level is far from ideal. Perhaps it could be improved?<\/p>\n<p>There are three available routes: &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leave the station platforms by the ramps at the North end of the station and walk to Waterloo Station then choose your preferred exit from there.<\/li>\n<li>Leave the station platforms by the ramps at the North end of the station and walk towards Waterloo Station but take the exit down many steps to Sandell Street.<\/li>\n<li>Leave the station platforms by the steps towards the South end of the station and enter Southwark Underground Station then exit from the main entrance at the junction of The Cut and Blackfriars Road. (This route can be used by railway-only ticket holders as well as travelcard holders, but the tickets used not to open the barriers and some staff did not know the concession; it has been much easier since barriers were reprogrammed for the London Bridge rebuilding.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2266\" src=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Southwark_station_access_to_Waterloo_East-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Southwark_station_access_to_Waterloo_East-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Southwark_station_access_to_Waterloo_East-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Southwark_station_access_to_Waterloo_East-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Southwark_station_access_to_Waterloo_East-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Southwark_station_access_to_Waterloo_East.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The third route appears to be very popular with many passengers holding railway only tickets, both in the morning and evening, especially at the moment when tickets will open th automatic barriers without problems. However there is one irritant when using this route and that is the need to descend into the upper levels of Southwark Underground between street level in Southwark and the platforms of Waterloo East Station.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2263\" src=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_hatfields_waterloo_east_possible_access-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_hatfields_waterloo_east_possible_access-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_hatfields_waterloo_east_possible_access-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_hatfields_waterloo_east_possible_access-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_hatfields_waterloo_east_possible_access-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It would improve access between Waterloo East Station and street level to provide an entrance\/exit direct to the road called \u201cHatfields\u201d that the railway crosses on a bridge just before the country end of the platforms at Waterloo East Station. Between the ticket barriers that control access to the South end of Waterloo East Station and the ticket barriers that provide access to Southwark Underground Station there is an area from which it may be possible to install a direct access to and from street level in Hatfields. Indeed close by there are emergency exits which presumably <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2264\" src=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_waterloo_east_southwark_ticket_barriers_area-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_waterloo_east_southwark_ticket_barriers_area-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_waterloo_east_southwark_ticket_barriers_area-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_waterloo_east_southwark_ticket_barriers_area-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016_11_01_waterloo_east_southwark_ticket_barriers_area-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>connect to street level &#8211; perhaps these could be used to provide an access route? Alternatively, and probably in a better more suitable position, it might be possible to create an entrance from Hatfields that would be located beside the escalators that descend in to Southwark Underground Station to the area between the two ticket barrier lines.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Please let us know<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/photo\/5160428\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2267\" src=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick-459x300.jpg 459w, https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/geograph-5160428-by-N-Chadwick.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I am sure that many people will agree that access between Waterloo East Station and street level is far from ideal. Perhaps it could be improved?<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/2253\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Improving Access To Waterloo East Station? @se_railway","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stations"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Keith Alderman","author_link":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/author\/keith"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/posts\/category\/stations\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Stations<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Stations<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"5","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 13 January 2017","modified":"Updated on 11 January 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 13 January 2017 08:35","modified":"Updated on 11 January 2017 17:55"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QBJ4-Al","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 23:30:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srta.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}