Wheelchair user locked in train in Dublin by staff for 35 minutes

A wheelchair user was left alone on a locked train in Dublin as there were no staff available to help him disembark.

Gerard Gallagher was travelling between Sligo and Connolly Station in Dublin and was left alone on the train in an empty station, after the other passengers had departed, it has emerged. There was no staff member available to provide a ramp and assist him from the train.

He says it was the first time in many years that he felt “completely disabled”.