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October 18, 2018 0

Disabled shadow minister calls for government to fund access to all rail stations

A disabled shadow minister has called on the government to do more to improve its “inadequate” record on improving access to rail travel, and to provide enough funding to ensure all train journeys are accessible “from end to end”. Marsha de Cordova, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people and the MP for Battersea, was

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Doug Paulley on a bus, with text about the law on access

September 13, 2018 0

Train companies could face court over inaccessible rail replacement buses

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Train companies are facing possible legal action over their failure to ensure that replacement bus services are accessible to wheelchair-users and other rail passengers with mobility impairments. A leading disabled campaigner believes that access and equality laws mean most rail replacement buses – used when companies scrap train services because of engineering works or

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September 6, 2018 0

Campaigners raise thousands in days for #TransportJustice legal fund

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A new campaign that will fund legal actions on behalf of disabled people who have faced discrimination on public transport has raised thousands of pounds in just a week. The #TransportJustice campaign has secured the backing of leading disabled activists and lawyers and is supported by Inclusion London and law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn.

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Sara Harvey in a pink dress on her scooter on a train platform

August 9, 2018 0

Train company faces calls to rip up scooter policy after latest ‘shameful’ episode

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A rail company is facing calls to change its “reprehensible and unsupportable” attitude to disabled passengers, after one of its guards threatened to throw a woman off a train because she was using a mobility scooter. Sara Harvey was on the way to a wedding with her husband Liam and had boarded a Northern

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August 2, 2018 0

Government repeatedly ignores its own advisers on ‘toxic’ train access

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The government has repeatedly ignored concerns raised by its own accessible transport advisers about the “toxic” impact on disabled people of running trains without a member of customer service staff on board, official documents have revealed. The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) has been warning the Department for Transport (DfT) of its concerns

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More than 30 protesters, including Heidi Alexander and wheelchair-users, with placards about access in front of a sign for Hither Green station

July 26, 2018 0

Figures finally show how government slashed spending on rail access scheme

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New figures released through the Freedom of Information Act have exposed how the government has slashed spending on its rail station access improvement programme over the last five years. The figures show spending on the Access for All scheme fell from as much as £81.1 million in 2013-14 to just £14.6 million last year.

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July 19, 2018 0

Disabled passengers question watchdog’s rosy view of airport assistance

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Disabled people who use UK airports have questioned a report which found significant improvement in the provision of assistance to passengers over the last year. The Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) third annual report into the assistance provided at the UK’s 30 biggest airports ranked 16 of them as “very good”, and just one –

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Disability logos and word 'accessible' above the entrance to an airport terminal

July 19, 2018 0

Councils that part-own Manchester Airport ‘must address embarrassing assistance’

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A leading disabled people’s organisation has called on the local authorities that part-own Manchester Airport to address the “embarrassment” of it being found to be the worst airport in the country at providing assistance for disabled passengers. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced in its third annual review of the assistance provided at the

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Head and shoulders of Tanyalee Davis looking distressed

July 19, 2018 0

Disabled comedian reduced to tears after public humiliation by train guard

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A disabled comedian has described how she was reduced to tears after being publicly “shamed” by a train guard who forced her to move her mobility scooter to make way for a mother with a baby buggy. Tanyalee Davis was on a Great Western Railway (GWR) train from Plymouth to London Paddington with her

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An artist's impression of the new rail station

July 12, 2018 0

‘Scandal’ of new rail station set to be built without step-free access to trains

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A new rail station being built as part of a multi-billion pound regeneration programme will not enable wheelchair-users to board trains without the help of staff and a ramp, disabled campaigners have warned. Brent Cross West Thameslink is being built as part of the £4.5 billion Cricklewood Brent Cross development in north-west London, a

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