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Hi Chris, From my work with Network Rail there is no justification for having different coloured nosings. We always advise they are the same. In terms of LRV values there will not be a great difference between white and yellow. Regards Ian Ian Streets NRAC (Consultant) ●access audits ●plan appraisals ●access statements ●training ●advice on accessibility ●nationwide coverage About Access Ltd 63 Wilson Street Anlaby Hull East Yorkshire HU10 7AJ Office 01482 651101 Mobile 07 957 564 182 www.aboutaccess.co.uk<applewebdata://35B9665D-4AA5-4E52-8A6C-D290D00732E3/www.aboutaccess.co.uk> Reg in England No 4117369. VAT No 763 9300 21 ====== Important ======== This email is for the intended recipient only and is confidential. If this email has been misdirected, please let the sender know and delete it. Any disclosure, copying, distribution is prohibited.Although we take great care to protect our network from computer viruses, we accept no responsibility for mailbourne viruses and recommend that you scan the email and its attachments. If you do find any viruses please let us know so that we may take appropriate action. For the legal protection of our business any email sent or received by us may be monitored or intercepted. Any personal data in this email must be handled in accordance with the GDPR 2018 From: Accessibuilt list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Chris Cook <[log in to unmask]> Reply to: Accessibuilt list <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, 23 July 2019 at 13:13 To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Stair Nosing Colours? Hi All! Please could I gauge the opinion of all on the list, who wish to reply to the following question below. As I’m totally blind, it makes no difference to me whatsoever, but I’ve been asked to canvas some expert opinion and thought that here would be a good platform to do so. Many Thanks in advance for any help. Chris Cook. The value of highlighting the stair nosing on stairs is obviously well known and to varying degrees of success this is a fairly standard improvement that should now be the norm on new external stairs and increasingly is being undertaken retrospectively on older stairs. In most cases the stair nosings will end up all one colour ( although which colour can depend on the step itself), but on transport , particularly rail, they can end up with most of the steps having a white nosing whilst the top and bottom steps are just in yellow. This is supposedly so you can identify where either the top or bottom or intermediate landings are when looking at the steps. However , this subtlety is often lost on most people and in fact the different colour can cause confusion for people particularly where their sight is more limited and so having made their way down a flight of stairs looking at each stair nosing in turn they can get to the bottom one and think they have arrived at the bottom and then actually miss the last step. However what do you think, keep them all the same colour or have the top and bottom step in different colours, what do you think works best? ----------End of Message---------- ----------End of Message----------