The wheelchair user posted about his ordeal on Instagram.A wheelchair user has hit out at rail bosses after he was stranded on a train platform - and staff refused to help citing "health and safety".
He needed to change platforms to catch the next train, which would arrive in 40 minutes. But the lift he needed to reach the platform had been out of order for a week.Chris shared his ordeal on Instagram. The rail firm apologised and said they were investigating.Read more: Male blood donor turned away after refusing to answer whether he was pregnant
Mr Nicholson eventually started to shuffle up the stairs while another passenger carried his wheelchair. An Avanti West Coast Spokesman said: 'We were made aware of this incident last night and are sorry to hear about the customer's experience.
Surely all staff should be trained to help. It should be a mandatory training requirement for the job.
A pay increase should fix it.
I blame Fred Kite: the convenor for the Health and Safety executive, for that. Pedro
This is pretty normal treatment of disabled passengers on a few lines often station staff aren't employed by the train companies this is why both LevelBoarding an regular proper lift maintenance by networkrail or whover is running each station needs to be done but often isn't