Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has been forced to 'crawl off' an LNER train at Kings Cross Station after no station staff came to help her alight her train.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has been forced to 'crawl off' an LNER train at Kings Cross Station after no station staff came to help her alight her train. The eleven-time Paralympic wheelchair champion took to X formerly Twitter to live-blog the incident, which took place just after 10pm on Monday, as she attempted to get the train operator's attention.
"If the train manager hadn't seen me crawling off, I would have had to pull the emergency cord and I would have delayed the train going north," she added.Grey-Thompson competed in wheelchair racing for Britain for 16 years before announcing her retirement, winning 16 Paralympic medals over the course of her career.Recent years have seen the former athlete become a television pundit, as well as a disabled rights activist.
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