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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Avanti accused of ‘virtue signalling without virtue’ over wheelchair user art

Disability mural on new Avanti trains
Two friends or family members who are wheelchair users cannot travel together in standard class on the Avanti West Coast trains. Photograph: Avanti

Campaigners have accused one of the UK’s leading train companies of “virtue signalling without the virtue” after it used images of wheelchair users that they say do not reflect the reality of travelling with a disability.

Baraka Carberry, a digital artist, created a new livery for Avanti West Coast, which provides rail links between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland, that shows “scenes of people, culture, colours and joy”. Titled Together We Roll, the images stretch across all seven carriages of the new Evero train, which the company says reduces carbon compared with the old fleet of trains.

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