She stood on the platform, and I was on the carriage steps.

A foot iron or footplate may serve as a carriage step.

He put a foot on the carriage step.

The carriage step has large stone slabs on a brick foundation.

I slumped down on the carriage steps like a dropped sandbag.

Like the castle gate, the doorway above the carriage steps beckoned.

When the men were assembled, Delgado put his foot onto the first of the carriage steps.

There was a slight protest from the carriage step, weighted down, released again.

Or that he reached out to steady her as she hesitated before the carriage step.

He heard the sharp clatter of the carriage steps unfolding.