Trains Rail Travel Transportation Accessibility Overview Summary

Overview Summary – Trains & Rail Travel Transportation – Accessibility

Train and rail travel is obviously a massive topic only from perspective of accessibility alone. We will not attempt to cover all on the blog, as that would be blinkered of the other many different resources there already are on this.

The blog will focus on train and rail travel accessibility, from perspective of personal recounts and observations of travellers, encouraging highlights of both bad and good experiences, and looking particularly at ways and suggestions for how things might be improved also from technological and equipment perspectives (both simple and more advanced).

• UK
• Regional Train Operating Companies
• See also:
• Ramp accessibility blong entry.
• Eurostar

UK Trains and Railways

In the UK the national trains system was separated in to a number of regional independent Train Operating Companies (TOCs) during the railway privatisation 1993/1994. Each TOC operates as an independent business unit under the collective National Rail brand. (More information is available at Wikikedia.)

The current TOC (Train Operating Companies) are listed below:

Find contact information, ticketing and fare options and be sure to checkout the onboard facilities. Contact information availble for each of the Train Operating Companies individually. Their contact details from the National Rail website at the below links.

Arriva Trains Wales c2c Chiltern Railways CrossCountry East Coast East Midlands Trains Eurostar First Capital Connect First Great Western First Hull Trains First TransPennine Express Gatwick Express Grand Central Heathrow Connect Heathrow Express Island Line Trains London Midland London Overground London Underground Merseyrail National Express East Anglia Northern Rail ScotRail South West Trains Southeastern Southern Stansted Express Virgin Trains

Eurostar

More about Eurostar accessibility to be added shortly.

This will include:

• Booking process - 'useful tips'
• Travel - 'useful tips'
• Accessibility new and older Eurostar trains

---

Add feedback or requests for design solutions in the Comments box below.

Subscribe to updates and gain access to the latest developments in the Aideas design community by submitting your email in the Follow by Email box on the right-hand side of this blog page.

Go to: Transportation — personal-mobility, vehicles and travel overview blog entry.