A visually impaired school boy couldn't stop smiling after staff at Lime Street station made his dream come true.
Joshua Clark, 13, was on a school trip in Liverpool city centre with his classmates from St Vincent's School in West Derby on Tuesday, when they paid a visit to the train station. It came after Josh told his teachers about his dream of becoming a train announcer when he's older and humanities teacher Mr Conor McSorley set out to make it a reality.
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Mr McSorley said: "I went down to Lime Street last week [and said] one of my pupils told me he dreamt of being a train announcer, would there be any possibility of him doing it?
"To the credit of the staff in Lime Street station they couldn't be more helpful."
Mr McSorley said a staff member at Lime Street called Caroline, who is believed to work for Northern Assist, was happy to help and told him to bring Josh down to the station on Tuesday.
A heartwarming video shows the moment Josh read out the announcement for a train due to depart to Crewe after Caroline showed him what to do. The video has been viewed over 75,000 times since Mr McSorley shared it on Twitter with the caption: "Josh has always dreamed of announcing trains and thanks to the kind people at Lime Street Station his dream became a reality today!"
Mr McSorley said: "He's so happy about it. Even all day today I told him how many views he's got and he sat there smiling.
"We're really passionate about promoting experience at this school and letting [our pupils] know they can achieve anything. Hopefully that will spur him on to pursue that in the future."
