Jack Taylor wrote:
"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:43:16 GMT, Jack Taylor wrote:

Disability Discrimination Act. Farcical, isn't it?

No.

Yes it is when a much larger majority of people are inconvenienced on
their
journey on the spurious excuse that a disabled person *may* want to
travel
and *may* be disadvantaged if PIS or PA systems are out of action.
The

If the train needed to be evacuated it would be helpful to be able to
announce that to all the passengers... Not just to disabled passengers

responsible and sensible thing to do is to allow the train to
continue until
such point as a replacement set can be found to take over the
diagram, not
to take the set out of service at the first opportunity. Anyone who
thinks
otherwise must be a cretin.

Why have all the hassle of finding a replacement set... getting it out
without delaying other services but whilst the current set is
operating. What's wrong with getting off at East Croydon and getting
on the next service which stops at Gatiwck Airport? They are pretty
frequent, aren't they?