Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson says she was forced to crawl off a train last night when rail staff failed to come and help her.
The gold-medal-winning Paralympian, 55, said she arrived into London King’s Cross station at around 10pm yesterday and there were no workers there to help her.
She had initially been posting on X, about her journey on a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train into the capital from Leeds.
The wheelchair racing champion, who is now a House of Lords crossbench peer, was on the 7.45pm service and had praised rail staff who kept checking on whether or not she needed food.
The train got into the station just after 10pm, and she posted: ‘Hey LNER my train has arrived at KGX and there is no one to get me off.’
And just minutes later: ‘Cleaning crew are on board.’ And then: ‘Cleaning crew are now leaving the train!!!!’
The Baroness continued posting, desperately trying to find out who could help her.
She wrote: ‘LNER who do I need to call to get off this train!!! It got to KGX 10 mins ago!!!!!’
At 10.24pm she said she’d had to crawl off the train.
She posted on X: ‘Well I’ve just crawled off.
‘At 22.17 (train got in at 22.02) I decided to crawl off. Had to move all my stuff onto the platform. Member of cleaning staff offered to help. They’re not insured.’
Lady Tanni said that she had been starting her journey to Paris for the Paralympics when the saga unfolded.
She told the BBC Tuesday morning: ‘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.’
