I also voiced my view this morning at LB ' Meet the Managers' and spoke to the same Irish guy as David L did. Clearly he had had a lot of the same thing this morning from a number of people.
He did say the plat 2 gates would be open from 16.30 onwards and that they would get a buzzer system. If the station was not staffed then the gates on both platforms would be left open. Which begs the question why bother imposing such measures in the first place as clearly the periods in which revenue is protected by barriers is not really a huge amount of time?

What precisely is meant to happen at weekends? I use the platform 2 steps with the buggy as its fairly straightforward with help which I usually manage to get from passing members of the public. Its much too dangerous to get a buggy and increasingly heavy toddler up and down the longer and steeper steps from platform 1.

He did seem to take things on board however if things really do become a problem we simply need to start getting things taped on a video camera and forward to the press, and also on this website? Like most organisations they won't want the publicity. Trust me, some of tried it earlier this year with EDF and got a result pretty quickly.