Stories and articles

 

Sydney / New South Wales

• Sydney trains: Hundreds fall between trains and platform at every year - 9News

• Disabled man falls out of wheel chair from train ramp - YouTube

• Sydney’s worst train stations for access revealed in secret documents | 7NEWS

• Sydney’s least accessible train stations revealed | 7NEWS - YouTube

• ​Sydney Rail’s wheelchair shame | news.com.au

• Train Accident Calamity: Passenger Dragged Between Carriage And Platform | Carter Capner Law

• ​“Step-free” doesn’t mean DDA-compliant – Daniel Bowen

• NSW Supreme Court finds for plaintiff in train platform accident case $1.1M - Wotton Kearney

• Can I Claim Compensation if I'm Injured on a Public Train in NSW? - Law Partners Injury Lawyers

• Train accessibility in Sydney. - YouTube

• Millions of Aussie commuters warned after spike in injuries at train stations

• The 'unconscionable' state of Australia's train stations - ABC News

• ​Outcry over wheelchair disgrace | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines

• Australia misses 20-year public transport accessibility target as many train and tram networks fail people with disabilities - ABC News

• Jeff Parker - The Blind Advocate​​ - Robbie's story (LinkedIn)

 

Brisbane / Queensland

• Queensland Rail video shows people falling between train and platform as number of accidents continues to rise

• Queensland Rail releases shocking footage of near misses, falls, and slips at train stations | 7NEWS

• From breaking disability access law to future plans — here's how Queensland's trains are tracking - ABC News

 

Melbourne / Victoria

• ‘Mind the gap’: Design fail at new Metro Tunnel stations

• Commuter alerted Metro to Heyington platform danger three months before teenager's death –The Citizen

• V/Line's sorry history of inaccessible trains - Waking up in Geelong

• Train Boarding Reservoir Station, Melbourne Australia - YouTube

• My Favourite Melbourne Platform Gap - YouTube

• Metro closes doors on tardy commuters​

• One size does not fit all: history's legacy of platform gaps putting rail users at risk –The Citizen

• Zoe Simmons - Metro Tunnel accessibility bungle, 50mm step for new $15B station - 9 News

 

London / United Kingdom

• ​Improving disabled access to UK’s public transport ‘almost impossible’ | Disability | The Guardian​

• Minding the gap at Ealing Broadway: 'It's a death trap'

• Elizabeth line: Another passenger seriously injured

• Elizabeth line gap repair delays at Ealing Broadway deemed 'unacceptable' | News UK | Metro News

• Girl, 4, falls four times due to huge gap between Elizabeth line trains and Ealing Broadway platform

• Effect of station design on death in the London Underground: observational study - PMC

• Man crushed to death by TWO TRAINS in London after falling through platform gap | 7NEWS

• Mind the gap: 11 years of train-related injuries at the Royal London Hospital Major Trauma Centre - PMC

• Dog dies after falling down gap between the platform at Brighton Station