Re: How Many Railway Staff to Push a Wheelchair?

> I couldn't believe that a member of station staff was given the job
> of pushing (well, pulling to be exact) someone in a wheelchair over
> the tracks on the barrow crossing.
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Why is there still a barrow crossing?  They have all
been removed at the stations in this part of the world.

The last local one to go, only a matter of weeks ago,
was the barrow crossing between Platforms 4 and 5
at the triangular Earlestown station. Even when it was
still there, some elderly and disabled people were seen
using it and cautioned by BTP officers at the station
investigating another matter.

Earlestown station has direct and almost level access
from the main town centre thoroughfare in Newton-le-Willows
onto Platform 1, the departure platform for Manchester
Victoria and one of the two arrival platforms from Liverpool.
There's also direct and almost level access from Old Wargrave
Road onto Platform 5, the arrival platform from Manchester
Piccadilly, the departure platform for Chester & North Wales
and one of the two departure platforms for Warrington BQ.

Platforms 2 (arr. from Man Vic, dep for Liverpool Lime St),
3 (on a bi-directional single line, arr & dep to/from Warrington
BQ and Liverpool Lime St) and 4 (arr from Warrington BQ,
Chester & North Wales and depart for Man Picc) are all on
the inside faces of the triangle. This means that nowadays
they are only accessible by one of the three footbridges
and effectively out of bounds to anyone in a wheelchair,
using crutches, too old or infirm to cross the bridges or
laden with a pram, kids and shopping.

These people still cross the tracks and so risk either their
lives or prosecution. If you warn them, they ask 'What else
can we do?' One wheelchair-bound youth who was making
his weekly visit to Warrington Hospital just before the last
board crossing was removed was cautioned by the BTP
while using it and told to take a taxi in future!



Regards,

DigitisED  (Eddie Bellass)

Eddie & Margaret Bellass,
Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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