Indeed - and I am splitting that into a separate thread

I'm sure I read somewhere (possibly within this forum) that one of the issues is that they are not really designed to be used "outdoors"?

Other stations which appear to have regular issues with lifts are Southampton Airport, Basingstoke and Fareham. Probably many others but the noticeable ones on the routes I regularly use.

To be fair, after heavy rain, the subway at Didcot is often out of action too, so no need for any lifts to be working.

The subway which is of course at ground level. It is usually a problem with blocked or collapsed drains somewhere - this issue arises outside in general periodically on Station Road / Hitchcock Way as well in the area in heavy rain.

Many years ago the Platform 2&3 lift was out of action for months with the offered solution for those who needed it being travelling via Swindon.

Here, the lift at Foregate Street to platform 2 (the Birmingham side) was out of action for the best part of a month.

And the lifts at Shrub Hill to give access to platform 2 have been promised for many years, but there's nothing to show for the work that has been undertaken. Instead, anyone in a wheelchair has to be taken across the barrow crossing by a member of staff.

At Birmingham New St (OK, outside GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)-land), the down escalator from the 'red lounge' to platforms 10b and 11b (usually the ones for Worcester and Hereford trains) has been out of action for several months. This is particularly annoying given that there are no alternative stairs (short of going out through one lot of gates, in through another, and accessing platforms 10a and 11a), though there is a (currently working) lift.

Lifts and escalators are of course examples of PBT (Post Brunel Technology), which always seems rather difficult on the railways.