Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Station accessibility across Britain mapped

This map takes step free access data for each of Great Britain’s 2,572 main-line railway stations as listed in Knowledgebase (the rail industry’s station information database) on 3rd February 2018. (There are actually 2,563 stations – the extra 9 in the database are bizarre anomalies such as including Elephant and Castle underground station.) There are…

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No, Bns Williams, the Equality Act doesn’t work for me.

I have been made aware of Bns Williams’ positive mention in the Lords, of my enforcement of the Equality Act. There are good examples of disabled people enforcing the duty to make reasonable adjustments. Noble Lords will no doubt have heard of the case of Mr Paulley, who has successfully enforced the Act on many…

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100% of Scotrail’s stations are accessible – official

Great news! It’s official! Scotrail’s assisted travel helpline told me so it must be true – All Scotrail’s stations are 100% accessible to all passengers, including wheelchair users! Here’s the transcript – Scotrail’s in bold, I’m not: All stations we deal with are all accessible for wheelchair users. All Scotrail stations? That’s impressive. Yes that…

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