Question follow-through · 76466
Shortlands Station: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to provide step-free access at Shortlands rail station.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to provide step-free access at Shortlands rail station.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2025
Answer published
Shortlands rail station already has step free access into the station and to and between each platform via lifts.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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