Given it is being discussed rather a lot, here's what the current and future railway organisational structure for the GB rail system should look like (useful context will come from watching this #Railnatter podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=OBx3iT…)...

I’m changing trains in Birmingham. I’m waiting for ramp assistance pretty much everyone got on said is there someone coming?

Figures released to my office show:

• Just 22% of ScotRail operated stations have toilets open to the public

• Just 19% have baby changing facilities

• Just two have Changing Places toilets for disabled passengers

The level of service is shameful.

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Westminster City Council Bull Inn Court opens onto the pavement at Maiden Lane. There is no dropped kerb. 15 & 16 Maiden Ln both have tables completely obstructing the pavement. 15 Maiden Ln said, 'we have a licence' & refused to move the tables.

'Around seven in ten people referred to #foodbanks in the The Trussell Trust network are disabled. That’s seven in ten people facing such hunger and hardship they’ve had no choice but to turn to their local food bank.'

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Hi ScotRail have you changed your policy around supporting disabled passengers in the last two weeks? My husband commutes between Glasgow and Haymarket daily he's a wheelchair user who cannot hold a phone steadily over a barcode reader 1/3

Post Office’s first reaction to the suicide of a sub-postmaster it accused of stealing was to hire a media lawyer to protect its “brand reputation”.

Widow silenced by a non-disclosure agreement to get phased compensation.

Not an ounce of humanity.
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Sam (Flower Girl) Jennings Louise Haigh I’m going to come back and haunt 👻 anyone that prevented equal access on the railways

ME TOO 🥹

100 years

The DDA is 30 next year

I can’t wait another 30 years never mind 100!

Louise Haigh if you’re serious about rail reforms you need to start with staffing the railway properly.

An unstaffed station is an inaccessible station 🚉

#DisabledByTheRailway

They need to start firing the station managers out of a cannon from London Bridge each time they don’t get the lift comms right

Make a good tourist attraction

Will you put disabled passengers first Keir Starmer + significantly increase Access for All investment and commit to Campaign for Level Boarding with legislative deadlines?

By the governments own figures it will take around 100 years for train stations to be step free and accessible

‘Kasia avoids catching the bus these days because she says so-called floating bus stops installed on Chiswick High Road have made it too risky for her to get around alone’

London mayor elections: Disabled voters describe their priorities. BBC London bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Chiltern Railways Twice in one week?? You are really showering yourselves in glory now. How exactly am I getting on the train to get home? Any ideas? #Railway #ChilternRailway #Wheelchair #Disabled Passenger #Disabled #TrainPassenger #PassengerAssist

The DWP is being dragged to COURT over its latest attack on benefit claimants - just as the UN slams it and the government for NOT doing anything about their human rights abuses against disabled people Ellen Clifford DPAC #NoMoreBenefitDeaths :
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Direct action ‘will put stake through the heart’ of government scapegoating of disabled people disabilitynewsservice.com/direct-action-… via Disability News Service

Seven years on and no progress on disability rights by UK government, says UN committee
(govt ignores disabled people's evidence and analysis and 'strongly rejects' the committee's findings)
#CRPD24 #CRDP24
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Gr8 article by Isabella McRae that gives this story the attention it deserves because grave & systematic violations of Deaf & dis ppl's rights SHOULD matter.

#CRDP24

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