New Station Design Guidelines

In Britain, the national railway infrastructure organisation, Network Rail, has published new station design guidelines. Although they are light on specifics, they do provide a good checklist for a station planner, designer, architect or engineer engaged on new or upgrading work involving stations.

There are also links in the guidelines to:

• The Network Rail "Station Capacity Assessment Guidance" document.  This is another useful source for a station planner and

• The Department for Transport "Accessible Train Station Design for Disabled People: A Code of Practice"

There are other links but some of them don't work.  Overall, the new document is well produced and attractive and offers useful pointers and the current NR thinking for station planner.  Have a look.