The posters have now been updated to say that the lifts will be open in January (2015, hopefully). I asked the member of staff manning the barriers this morning what the issue was.

His response: "Apparently the contractors are worried that if anybody gets stuck they won't have staff available to retrieve them." He did say that he was expecting that the lifts will start to operate next week, but we've been told next week/month since early November, so I am not holding my breath.

I would really like the person responsible for managing this piece of work to do a meet-and-greet with their customers at the station at some point. I'd love to hear their side of the story on this whole sorry farce.