WORK to upgrade Crystal Palace train station and make it fully wheelchair accessible will begin in the next few weeks, Transport for London has announced.
When all work is complete, the 11,000 passengers using the station each day will benefit from three new lifts from ticket hall to platform level, improved CCTV, customer information screens, a PA system, and new signage following a complete station refurbishment.
The Grade II listed ticket hall of the historic station will be refurbished this summer with the remainder of the work completed next year.
TfL’s chief operating officer for rail, Howard Smith, said: “This is a great opportunity to restore it to its original grandeur and at the same time bring it into the 21st Century with full accessibility from the ticket hall to the platforms.”
The station was originally built in 1854 to serve visitors to the nearby Crystal Palace building relocated from the Hyde Park Great Exhibition of 1851.
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