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With respect to the New York cow tunnel, it is worth noting that London has something similar, but for horses.
The London & North Western Railway built a series of tunnels to get horses between their stables and Camden goods yard without having to cross the main lines on the level. The tunnels are still there – I visited them about 30 years ago – and are linked into the vaults that housed the London & Birmingham Railway’s winding engines for hauling trains up Camden Bank.
If a mobility scooter needs to be assessed before it can be taken on a train (which in itself surprised me), why is this an operator-specific scheme? If an assessment is needed, it should be a national standard.
@IslandDweller My guess as to the reason to assess scooters: As mobility scooters come in many different sizes, and as train carriages have wheelchair/accessibility zones of different sizes, Northern would prefer to assess all scooters beforehand, lest a scooter not fit, causing embarrassment and frustration (and bad press).