{"id":122225,"date":"2024-08-27T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/paralympian-tanni-grey-thompson-forced-to-crawl-off-lner-train\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:41:16","slug":"paralympian-tanni-grey-thompson-forced-to-crawl-off-lner-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/paralympian-tanni-grey-thompson-forced-to-crawl-off-lner-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson forced to ‘crawl off’ LNER train"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wheelchair athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson pictured in 2004, who led the way to become Britain’s most successful ever Paralympian<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was forced to “crawl off” a LNER train arriving at London’s King’s Cross.<\/p>\n

Posting on X, Britain’s most successful Paralympian said she had initially booked assistance to help her off the 19:15 train from Leeds but missed it and went on the 19:45, as she journeyed to Paris for the Paralympics.<\/p>\n

She said she had a contract in place to be helped off but after waiting for 20 minutes no one arrived so she had to try to disembark herself.<\/p>\n

LNER has said it is investigating what happened and said it was “sorry to understand there was an issue” at the station.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme <\/a>she said: “There was no one there to meet me and I waited five minutes before putting anything on social media because you’re meant to leave five minutes. After 16 minutes of waiting at King’s Cross, there was no one in sight.<\/p>\n

“There were a couple of cleaners but they’re not insured or able to help me off. So I decided that I would crawl off the train.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to Paris later today, I’ve got a few bags. I chucked them 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.”<\/p>\n

Although she went on the later train, she “had a contract” to be met at the other end. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Legally I am allowed to turn up and ask to get on a train.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“I can just about get off the train if I need to, but there are loads of people that can’t.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An LNER spokesperson said: “We are sorry to understand there has been an issue at London King\u2019s Cross station on Monday evening. <\/p>\n

“We are in the process of investigating this and are in contact with the customer directly.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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