Accessibility

Accessibility of Tea on the Train

We aim to cater for the needs of all visitors to our facility, such as a 30+ year old train carriage will allow. If there are any specific requests please feel free to contact us either by phone or email.

Arrival and Parking

On arriving at Tea on the Train there is a large spacious car park set out in front of the train carriage. There is a large adjoining overflow car park that can also cater for coaches. There are two disabled parking spots to the right of the carriages which are nearest to the Heritage Centre. These are positioned so that the ramp of the station platoform can be accessed easily just to the left of the Heritage Centre. This then leads to the train.

There is a short flight of steps up to the platform level nearest to the carriages. These have a hand rail at either side. If steps prove challenging please use the ramp nearest the Heritage Centre.

Entrance

The train itself has a ramp for visitor access with a small step at the doorway.. The ramp has hand rails on either side. Please note that the doors of the carriages are not wide enough for a wheelchair or powered chair. We do have an evacuation transfer chair for use if required if you and you carer(s) feel able to utilise this safely. There is also alternative covered outside seating.

The carriage has no space for wheelchairs or the transfer chair due to its old design. If you need guidance on arrival please let a member of staff know. We hope to remedy this with a second carriage in the near future.

Toilet

There is currently no onboard toilet as space is limited and it is not suitable for many disabled users. The Heritage Centre has a male and a female toilet with the female toilet being whellchair accessible.

Accessibility of this Website

Access Keys

Most browsers support site-defined keyboard access for specified links.

• On many Windows browsers, you can press ALT + an access key followed by RETURN, or ALT+SHIFT + an access key followed by RETURN;
• On many Mac browsers, you can press CTRL + an access key or CTRL + ALT + an access key depending on the browser version.
• A full list of browser key access controls for various browsers can be found here.

These are the access keys for this site:

• m - Skip to main navigation
• 1 - Home page
• 2 - Skip to main content (desktop size screens only)
• 3 - Site map
• 5 - Privacy Policy / Use of Cookies
• 8 - Terms and Conditions of Use
• 9 - Feedback form / contact us
• 0 - Access key details

ARIA roles

The following ARIA landmark roles are used on this website:

• Banner: The page header. A region that contains mostly site-oriented content, rather than page-specific content;
• Complementary: the right Sidebar if present. A supporting section of the document, designed to be complementary to the main content, but remains meaningful when separated from the main content;
• ContentInfo: The page footer. A large perceivable region that contains information about the parent document. In this case the region is the page footer;
• Main: The main content of a document;
• Navigation: A collection of navigational elements ( links) for navigating the document or related documents.

Tab / Tabindex

There is no use of tab keys for field ordering on this site.

No CSS Stylesheet?

The site will still present without CSS styling enabled and there are jump links to aid navigation. The jump links also appear in the accessibility bar if CSS is enabled.

Images and Slideshows

Single images have alt captions wherever possible to aid with accessibility. Slideshows may not have this functionality but a general description for the slideshow will be provided by a link or title.

Links and iframes

Each link and iframe should each have a title to aid their accessibility.

External Sites

We have no control over the accessibility of third party sites linked to from within the Tea on the Train website. This includes the booking engine.