GALLERY: Progress on works at Warwick Railway Station
New photographs sent to Nub News have shown the progress on the new lifts at Warwick Railway Station.
Network Rail resumed the 'Access for All' scheme last year after the discovery of Victorian building remains where the new shafts were to be built put the breaks on the scheme.
Planning permission was then granted for the new designs, with work taking place at day and night to progress the scheme.
The subway at Warwick Railway Station has also been closed for the last six months as the works progress, and the road behind the station has shut.
Work on site will see part of the station building demolished and rebuilt, with a new shop also installed.
The project will also include diverting cables, dismantling the station roof, removing the subway stairs, excavating the shafts and then rebuilding the building and stairs.
Network Rail said it will "make every effort to minimise any unnecessary noise and dust" during the upcoming months.
Plans for platform two will not change but a "significant redesign" was needed for the other platform, due to the discovery of the former station building foundations.
The concrete lift shaft on platform one will now have to be outside the building, with a lift motor room still planned for inside.
Stairs inside the station building to the subway will be filled in, with a new set of stairs built in the car park.
The remainder of the station building to the east of the existing stair area will form a new retail shop.
Last August workers found foundations believed to be from the first railway station built on the site in 1852 - which lasted just 42 years before being destroyed by fire in 1894.
Network Rail said the foundations were not recorded in the plans of what was then rebuilt 129 years ago.
The near 200-year-old walls lie right where the platform one lift was due to go, and the substructure cannot be disturbed as it is "integral to the existing building and platform".
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