DISABLED people have spoken about the difficulties of access to the rail station on the Jubilee line extension.

A group of mobility and visually impaired people visited the North Greenwich Station on October 19 to assess access difficulties.

Transport for London's rail services board has admitted when the extension was built, not enough attention was paid to the needs of the disabled, but promise to remedy this.

Michael Corfin, who is partially sighted, said the colour of the station and size of the signs made it difficult for him.

He said; "Much was made about the step-free access when the line was built. The reality is several stations present a slight step into the train and a larger gap between the train and the platform than is safe for people with visual impairment, or those walking with sticks, using wheelchairs or pushing buggies."

Bryan Heiser, who is a wheelchair user and a special advisor on accident and mobility for the TFL board also visited the station.

He said: "It is outrageous a brand new piece of infrastructure should present so many basic problem for disabled people.

"I have asked for a full report to the TFL board."

London Underground's access and mobility spokesman, Andrew Braddock said: "If we had a chance to build the Jubilee line extension again, of course there would be a few things we want to be changed.

"While the station is award-winning architecturally, the large amounts of grey, glass and stainless steel architects like to use do present problems for the partially sighted.

"Money is still being spent on North Greenwich station to make it brighter and increase colour contrasting to improve access to the station for the partially-sighted."