Campaign for Level Boarding

The Campaign for Level Boarding was established in late 2019 to address what was seen as a lack of ambition among the rail industry to achieve widespread level boarding across the UK rail network.

The Campaign for Level Boarding is an unofficial network of disabled rail users, railway engineers and other industry professionals, seeking to use their combined experience and knowledge to revolutionise rail travel and improve safety for everyone.

The key asks of the campaign are to:

• Establish a procurement standard for all new trains to be “low-floor”, with extendable gap fillers, to match the platform height
• Begin a rolling programme of platform improvements to bring all platforms up to the existing UK standard (915mm height, 730mm offset)
• Agree a target of 2040 to achieve level boarding across the UK rail network.

DMD Pathfinders provides the secretariat for the campaign. The campaign has no funding from or affiliation with any other organisations, being run by volunteers.