A former Paralympian was forced to crawl off a train as she travelled to Paris.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was on an LNER train arriving into London King’s Cross from Leeds as she journeyed to the Paralympics.
The former wheelchair racer had missed her original 19.15 booking and instead travelled down to the capital on the 19.45 service.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Baroness Grey-Thompson said: ‘There was no one there to meet me and I waited five minutes before putting anything on social media because you’re meant to leave five minutes.
‘After 16 minutes of waiting at King’s Cross, there was no one in sight. So I decided that I would crawl off the train.
‘I chucked my bags 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.’
But even though she missed her original booking, LNER still have a ‘contact’ …