Our increasingly busy station – with broadly the same layout for the last 100 years – fails modern expectations for accessibility by persons with restricted mobility.

 

 

Put plainly … the steps are steep and dangerous, and there is no lift.​And not surprisingly, it no longer offers appropriate (or possibly even legally compliant) standards of passenger safety.​

 

Meanwhile it has witnessed rapidly rising passenger numbers. Traffic rose from pre-Covid 1.08 million in 2019–20 to 1.12 million in 2023-24; by 56% between 2022 – 24.

 

And throughout Lambeth, Loughborough Junction is the only station showing an increase on pre- Covid passengers, whilst the borough’s other 13 stations average a 26% drop in footfall since 2020.​London’s population is growing fast.

 

That, along with recent and planned housing developments near the station, will further increase demand for rail transport.​​​​​