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Two new lifts have recently been installed at Streatham station in south London, giving step-free access from street to platform, and they’ve been installed quicker than expected.

The station’s main entrance is on a bridge over the railway, with stairs down to the station’s two platforms. There is step-free access to Platform 1 (Croydon bound trains), but it’s via a rather long footpath, and there used to be a similar option for step-free access to the London-bound platforms, but that was removed in the 1980s when a supermarket was built on the former coal yard and car park.