Liverpool allocates £19m for accessible station projects

Four Merseyrail stations will have new lifts installed to provide step-free access from the street to the train.

The Liverpool Combined Authority will contribute £9.5 million for the work, with the same amount coming from the government’s Access for All scheme.

When the lifts are in place at Aigburth, Port Sunlight, Rock Ferry and Walton, 80% of city region stations will have step-free access from pavement to platform.

Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, has pledged to ensure every station on the local rail network is fully accessible by 2030, complementing the sliding step technology that provides level boarding on Merseyrail’s new Class 777 trains.

This announcement is the latest in a continuing programme that has already made 61 of the regions 83 stations fully accessible, with work currently under way at Broad Green.