Request ID: FOI-1726-2122 Date published: 18 November 2021
You asked
Hi. Across the London Underground, DLR, London Overground, and TfL rail network, for the stations that have lifts, can you please provide the dimensions of each of these lifts?
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-1726-2122
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 4th November 2021 asking for information about the dimensions of lifts on the TfL network.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“Across the London Underground, DLR, London Overground, and TfL rail network, for the stations that have lifts, can you please provide the dimensions of each of these lifts?”.
I can confirm that we hold some of the information you require. However, under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act TfL is not required to respond to a request where it would cost more than £450 to determine if the information is held, and to then locate, retrieve or extract that information from elsewhere. This is calcuated at a rate of £25 per hour, equivalent to 18 hours work. The information you have requested has not been collated before, and in order to do so we would need to search the individual records for each relevant station. With hundreds of stations covered by the scope of your request this is not feasible within the costs limit.
In order to bring your request within the costs limit you may wish to narrow its scope to focus on the information that is of most importance to you. For example, you may wish to limit the request to a specific station or stations, rather than entire networks. If you choose to do so, it would also be useful to know what precise ‘dimensions’ the request relates to. Note that we may not hold information where a station or lift is owned or managed by Network Rail, which I understand is particularly the case for London Overground and TfL Rail services. You may therefore wish to contact Network Rail also.
FOI request to Network Rail can be made online via its website here:
