16-601: LGO may refer to: Places [ edit ] Llangynllo railway station (train station code LGO ), Powys, Wales, UK Lalgopalganj (train station code LGO ), India; see List of railway stations in India Langeoog Airport (IATA airport code LGO ); see List of airports by IATA airport code: L Lingao County (region code LGO ), Hainan, China; see List of administrative divisions of Hainan People [ edit ] Local Government Ombudsman (LGO), now
32-445: A Quad 4 engine Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title LGO . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LGO&oldid=1169921293 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
48-567: A Delivery of Customer Service Award at the 2009 Civil Service Diversity and Equality Awards . In February 2019, a Hump was proposed for Marsden railway station in West Yorkshire, which would alleviate the problem of a 45 cm drop from train to platform According to the Association of Community Rail Partnerships , innovative aspects of the Hump are that: Similar humps have been installed on
64-459: A minor rural road off the B4356 road . All trains serving the station are operated by Transport for Wales . There are five trains a day in each direction from Monday to Saturday and a sixth morning service to Shrewsbury for commuters on weekdays; two services call on Sundays. This is a request stop , where passengers have to signal to the driver to board or alight from the train. The highest point on
80-567: A particular door on a train, usually one designed for wheelchair access. Consequently, the Hump is less suited to platforms served by different configurations of trains, such as at Dalton railway station , where wheelchair accommodation doors are often located in different positions on different trains. The second Hump was installed at St Albans Abbey railway station and the third at Aberdovey railway station . Other stations to receive Humps include Northwich , Flixton , Whaley Bridge , Eccles , Kents Bank and Hadfield . The Hump system won
96-454: A particular station, and can be installed in a few days. Installing a Harrington Hump is much cheaper than raising the entire length of the platform – to the order of 1/10th of the typical £250,000 cost. The Hump was devised by Network Rail and Cumbria County Council , in conjunction with Pipex Structural Composites, and was installed first at Harrington railway station in December 2008. It
112-508: Is a modular, easy-to-install system by which the height of a railway platform can be increased at relatively low cost. The system takes its name from Harrington railway station in Cumbria , England , which is the location of the first production version. Since 2011, Harrington Humps have been installed slowly at other railway stations in the UK and elsewhere. Platform height across the UK rail network
128-401: Is claimed that Harrington was chosen as the pilot site because it has the greatest drop from train floor to platform and, as a coastal station, it offered the harshest of environments in which to test the hump. Otherwise known as an "Easy Access Area", Network Rail has conceded that the structure will be known henceforth by its nickname, Harrington Hump . The Hump is positioned to align with
144-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Llangynllo railway station Llangynllo railway station is a countryside stop in Powys about 5 miles west of Knighton , on the Heart of Wales Line . The station is located 1.4 miles north of Llangunllo village (also known as Llangynllo ), at road level beside one house and two cottages on
160-401: Is not standardised because, at the time of the construction of the network, different railway companies settled on different platform heights. Platforms sited low (compared to the level of the train carriage floor) present entry and exit problems to mobility-impaired passengers, including wheelchair users. Raising the level of a complete platform is relatively costly and in many instances beyond
176-734: The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman L. G. O. Woodhouse (20th century), Surveyor-General of Ceylon Other uses [ edit ] Leaders for Global Operations (LGO), a degree program at MIT local government ordinance (LGO) learning goal orientation (LGO) Largo Resources Ltd. (stock ticker LGO ), see Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (L) The "LG-0" series of Gibson L Series acoustic guitar introduced in 1958, pronounced as "el gee oh" See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "lgo" on Misplaced Pages. Oldsmobile LG0,
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#1732863293525192-510: The early 1960s. At Llangunllo nearby are the Olgliniau Cynllo, the knee prints of St Cynllo at prayer. These are examples of a petrosomatoglyph . Official Llangunllo Website: Official Llangunllo Website [REDACTED] Media related to Llangynllo railway station at Wikimedia Commons This Wales railway station-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Harrington Hump The Harrington Hump
208-418: The line (about 980 ft (299 m) above sea level) is a short distance to the north of the station, near to the southern portal of the 647 yd (592 m) long Llangynllo tunnel. The station is unstaffed and has no ticketing provision, so all tickets must be purchased before travel or on the train. It has been fitted with a Customer Information display, payphone and customer help point in addition to
224-551: The means of Network Rail and local authorities. The impetus for the hump, it is claimed, was a complaint by the chairman of the Copeland Rail Users' Group that low platforms on the Cumbrian Coast Line caused users difficulty in boarding and alighting from trains, made at Allerdale Area Transport Advisory Group, a sub-committee of Cumbria County Council's Local Committee. A suggestion of a partial raising of platforms
240-412: The standard timetable poster board and waiting shelter. The platform is low, which has caused access issues for passengers in the past (a set of wooden steps was required to join or alight from modern stock) but an easy access ramp has since been fitted to help passengers when joining or leaving trains. A disused platform is still visible opposite the active one, as a passing loop was located here until
256-421: Was made to parry a Network Rail assertion that remedial work would cost a "six-figure sum" per station. The Harrington Hump is a partial solution to the long-standing problem of user access to railway carriages from relatively low station platforms. The Hump is a pair of ramps and a short flat top, built from a glass-reinforced polymer. It is capable of being designed to meet the width and height requirements of
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