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If you want to use the least used tube station, from today you're semi-buggered. You probably don't, it is the least used tube station after all, but the Londoners who live nearby are being inconvenienced even more than normal. RODING VALLEY STATION: From Tuesday 6 May until end of July 2025, westbound trains (towards Woodford) will not stop at the station and the footbridge will be closed. Access to and exit from the station will be via Station Way only. Please travel via eastbound trains and change at Chigwell, or for step-free access change at Hainault or use local London Buses route W14 to Woodford. The issue is the footbridge which is in need of repair. The lattice bridge dates back to the station opening in 1936, and was brought in from another station so is even older than that. You only have to walk across or stand underneath to see how necessary the upcoming works are, the green paint peeling and the metalwork exposed and tarnished. The plan is thus for the steelwork to undergo essential maintenance and for everything to be repainted, protecting the structure underneath for many years to come. This requires closing the footbridge for twelve weeks, dividing the station and the local community in two. But apparently it also requires closing the westbound platform, just not for any reason you'd be expecting. very few passengers, it sits precisely on the London/Essex boundary and it's one of only three tube stations with no ticket barriers. It also sits between two streets, both of which have direct access to one of the two platforms, meaning it's been step-free for ages without the need for lifts. What's thus odd is that the station could still function fine without a footbridge, yet they're closing half of it for three months anyway. 520m journey from one side to the other via the two streets so not exactly convenient, but better than closing the westbound platform entirely. "We need to close the westbound platform because station staff would not be able to cross between platforms in the unlikely event of an emergency with the footbridge out of service." There is a tiny but finite chance that an emergency could occur on the westbound platform before the end of July, whereas staff are generally located on the eastbound platform where the tiny backoffice and kettle are. It would be indefensible for a member of staff to see an unfolding emergency and be unable to reach it, other than via a half-kilometre jog round local streets, so to mitigate this the westbound platform is being closed. Minimal likelihood but severe impact ticks the wrong box on a risk assessment matrix, sorry, hence locals are being massively inconvenienced. Inconvenience 1: Roding Valley will be served by only three trains an hour Inconvenience 2: The trains aren't going very far anyway shuttle service was reintroduced between Woodford and Hainault, so you can only get as far as one or the other and then you have to change trains. And from today you can only get to Hainault, not Woodford. Inconvenience 3: Passengers travelling towards central London will only be able to travel via Hainault. from central London you can now only get here via Woodford. Inconvenience 4: "Please travel via eastbound trains and change at Chigwell" Inconvenience 5: "... or for step-free access change at Hainault" Inconvenience 6: "or use local London Buses route W14 to Woodford" Inconvenience 7: It's probably quicker to walk Inconvenience 8: Roding Valley station is often unstaffed. You probably won't be affected by any of this, it is the least used tube station after all. But if you have the misfortune to live near Roding Valley you're being inconvenienced even more than normal and even more than necessary, so bad luck. Until August.