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On trains they have a ā€˜ disabled carriageā€™, right.

Thatā€™s where ( some ) staff want you to be. Itā€™s not obligatory because often Iā€™m not put in that one. Whatā€™s ESSENTIAL though is that the staff in the station where you are getting off know which carriage you are in, so that they know where to put the rampā€¦
Today, after a sequence of calamities with the tickets, the delays and confused staff, Iā€™m eventually helped into a train to Sevenoaks.
The very next stop and thereā€™s another chap ( profoundly disabled ) In a very large powered chair ( assisted by his Carer ). Where do they want to put him ? In the Disabled carriage, with me. All the wheelchairs together.. except there quite clearly isnā€™t enough roomā€¦ because Iā€™m quite long with my Triride, and heā€™s like a juggernaut in his vehicle. Tbh itā€™s absolutely bloody obvious that two into one wonā€™t go, yet still they try šŸ¤·
Ultimately itā€™s left to ME ( voice of logic?? ) to suggest that I get off, and they put me in a different carriage, and tell Sevenoaks that Iā€™ve moved carriages.

But good griefā€¦ itā€™s really not rocket science, is it ?

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