Disabled people were not a priority and were kept in workhouses and asylums when rail systems were built. The UK built some of the earliest rail systems, but they were never intended to be joined together and so there were no coherent standards. To this day different rail companies have monopolies of different areas and each have their own approach. There is still no enforcement for platform placement standards or of train floor heights. New trains and platforms are still being built and bought that are not compatible e.g. Thameslink, Crossrail, Elisabeth Line, HS2 etc.
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