Concerns raised over safety of railway station bridge

Concerns raised over safety of railway station bridge at Deal

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00:00I'm really concerned that, perhaps fundamentally on health and safety, that the steps are unsafe.

00:07There are gaps between the steps, so I think in technical terms there's no riser, and so

00:16your foot can go between the steps and you do yourself a rather nasty injury.

00:22It's solid enough underfoot, but you don't feel particularly safe, and of course if it's

00:28pouring with rain, you're in a most vulnerable position.

00:32It's in very poor structural, it's rusting, it hasn't been painted for years, it has no

00:39roof on the stairs or the actual bridge over the tracks, so it's in a fairly poor condition.

00:47One of the problems is it's not a bridge in a country area, it's used by hundreds of people

00:53every day as one of the main walks from the station into the centre of Deal.

01:01Well there are gaps in it, and the slats are not wide enough to put your feet on.

01:08You need to hold on coming down, it's quite dangerous.

01:11I think it needs a bit of a lick of paint and a bit of TLC, but it's solid, and I don't

01:16think it's dangerous at all.

01:18And you mentioned something about it was bombed during the war?

01:21So I read, yeah, that there's some bullet holes on it, so there's a bit of history there,

01:26so they just need to look after it a little bit.

01:29Well I've travelled across it many times, and it's never even occurred to me it's unsafe.

01:34So I can't really see the reasoning behind that.

01:36I agree with Matt, it's lick of paint, and it could look a bit better I suppose, if it

01:40could be really for nicotine.