New platform surface at Slaithwaite

Anyone who has used Slaithwaite station in the past year or so cannot failed to have noticed the modern art on the platform in the form of yellow-edged patches covering various places where the original platform surface has rotted away.

On some parts of the station there is more patch than platform.

This could not go on for ever, and it hasn’t. So, on the Manchester-bound platform, about one third of the platform length has been resurfaced, with a tactile strip along it.

As yet, that’s all that has been done. The rest of platform 2, and all of platform 1, remains a thing of shreds and patches.

Replacement of the platform should have been used as an opportunity to lengthen the platforms to take four-carriage trains, but this didn’t happen.

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