Rail card bid to end humiliation

IMAGINE surviving a life-changing stroke or coping with another hidden disability - and then being refused entry onto a train because it's wrongly assumed you are drunk.

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That's what happened to my brother, Jim, when after a gruelling 20-minute walk from Everton's Hill Dickinson stadium, he finally made it to Liverpool’s James Street station.

"My speech and balance aren't as good they used to be," said Jim, 73, "and a member of the station's staff said I was drunk and wouldn't let me go through with my friend to the train.