As a disabled blogger who has an interest in travel and public transport, I think it would be extremely negligent if I didn’t flag this story up today. Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was apparently forced to crawl off a LNER train from Leeds to King’s Cross. She had booked ramp assistance, but when nobody arrived to help her after twenty minutes, she had no choice but to crawl off the train herself. Fortunately this has never happened to me, but I have heard many, many similar stories of disabled people being stranded on trains. Mind you, if this did ever happen to me, I have no idea what I would do: in my big powerchair, I’d be completely alone; and if the train started moving again, zark knows where I would end up. That thought alone is enough to make me shudder.

Surely there must be some way of ensuring this does not happen to wheelchair users.