Anyone familiar with cycle parking/storage facilities at Waverley Station?
Are there secure facilities I can leave the bike at, or just racks I'll need my lock for?
Cheers.
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Waverley Bike Parking
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Bike parking at Platform 3 or beside the Transport Police office. Looks like two cycle lockers at the Police office too. If memory serves, you need to speak to the station manager's office about the lockers (there's a pile of them down at Newcraighall - wonder how many see any use?).
Platform 3 also has a small bike repair hub (pump, workstand and some tools).
Locking your bike to anything other than the appointed racks will result in it being removed.
I'd always have a lock, even in a 'secure' lock up.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Thanks @Mandopicker1 I was hoping to get away with being lazy and not lugging a big lock up there ;-)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Does anyone else agree that the bike parking at Waverley is amongst the worst and most difficult to use in Edinburgh? There are two banks of two-tier racks and one bank of toast-rack style 'sheffield' racks. Let's deal with the toast-racks first. They are too close together, so you can only comfortably lock one bike against each rack. You can, with some considerable effort, get another bike alongside, but why, [b]why, do they continue to provide rubbish facilities when there is the practically perfect option of lovely, properly spaced Sheffield racks which give twice the capacity (see Sainsburys at Gorgie for superb Sheffields sadly underused). Now the two-tier design. There is a special place in hell for the designer of these montrosities. First, you can't figure out how to use them without reading the accompanying instructions; second, although the instructions advise to lock through both frame and wheel, this is impossible with just one D lock; third, both tiers are wheel benders; fourth, if you choose the upper tier, you have to physically lift the bike into the wheel channel (yes I know the mechanism can be pulled down, but not down to the ground, you still have to lift); if you choose the lower tier, always assuming there is one available, which is unlikely, you have to be a contortionist to get underneath, and run the risk of banging your head on the tier above. I could go on, but you get the picture. They are absolutely rubbish and the only reason they are used is because there is nothing else.
Posted 10 years ago # -
By chance I was there today with a CCEer who pointed out that the three sets near the police office were actually different designs with slightly different ways of stopping bikes falling over!
Posted 10 years ago # -
I've never used the tiered ones for exactly the reason you say - couldn't see any easy way to lock bike on.
And indeed the last time I used the Sheffields - with arellcat I think? we struggled to fit our bikes in and she observed that they were too close together.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Used the above pictured tiered racks today
Was a little surprised to find they don't have any sort of sprung or hydraulic assist to help your bike up or stop it flying down. Requires oneself to adopt quite a strong stance in both directions.
Posted 8 years ago #
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