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Network Rail can’t afford staff for Bridge to Nowhere ticketing

Network Rail wants to press ahead with opening the bridge at the eastern, Addiscombe side of the tracks – but just without providing access to the station’s platforms for ticketed passengers.

Network Rail last month submitted a planning application to Croydon Council, but has done little, if anything, to publicise their hare-brained scheme to the thousands of passengers who use the station every day, or to the residents in Addiscombe who have been waiting for more than a decade to be able to access the station and stroll across the bridge to the town centre from Cherry Orchard Road.

They appear to achieved their objective. By the weekend, the planning application had attracted fewer than half-a-dozen public comments – though all of those object to Network Rail’s half-arsed solution to this development conundrum.