Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

Interestingly, although I'm a regular rail user, I've *never* seen anyone
with a
wheel chair use a train.


And yet millions have been spent just in case one should ever want to.


I have a few times at Clapham Juncttion and occasionally on long distance
routes. But at the moment frankly a lot of stations are utterly inaccessible
for wheelchair users, leaving only a few combinations of routes viable.

So they may need help on some routes.

Earlier this year, I changed train at Castle Cary, a middle-of-nowhere
station that gets trains stopping because it's a junction. The main
line train stopped several minutes, longer than scheduled, while the
guard helped a wheelchair user on (a nontrivial job because the platform
is only accessible by footbridge). A _good_ reason for a modest delay,
and by the time I got off (Plymouth), it had made up the lost time.

Oh, and I've seen many wheelchair users on trains. One or two were
quite memorable people.

--
Nick Kew