'I chucked my bags on the platform, I had to get out of my chair, sit on the floor by the door which is not pleasant and then crawl off.'
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, who led the way to become Britain’s most successful ever Paralympian A former Paralympian was forced to crawl off a train as she travelled to Paris. Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson was on an LNER train arriving into London King’s Cross from Leeds as she journeyed to the Paralympics. The former wheelchair racer had missed her original 19.15 booking and instead travelled down to the capital on the 19.45 service.
’ But even though she missed her original booking, LNER still have a ‘contact’ to meet those needing assistance at the other end. ‘Legally I am allowed to turn up and ask to get on a train. We were meant to have level boarding in the UK on 1 January 2020 under the Disability and Discrimination Act but government has kicked the can down the road,’ she said. ‘I can’t really crawl but sit on the floor and drag my legs. There was no one around and I was very angry last night.
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