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Recently, Northern, thanks to Tony Jennings, has lifted its Class 158 ban so that mobility scooters can travel on the whole Northern network for the first time. However, if you get off at Newcastle and try to use the Tyne and Wear Metro, you are still banned from it. That is a bit of a shame because it has replaced all its old trains with level-boarding Class 555 Stadlers, so there really are no excuses. Now, what Merseyrail has done on level boarding has been amazing. Somebody said to me that that was easy, because it is a closed-loop system; it is not easy, but certainly easier. However, what it had was a vision for how disabled people could travel differently.