TELEVISION presenter Mariella Frostrup claims she was booted off a train en route to Taunton - simply for requesting information from a member of staff.
Ms Frostrup is now threatening legal action against Great Western Rail for the incident on the Paddington to Taunton train last Saturday (July 1).
She says she simply asked an employee why the train was not making a scheduled stop at Castle Cary.
Ms Frostrup claims that she was escorted off by a police officer after asking what plans there were for passengers who had intended to get off the train at Castle Cary.
She also told her 56,000 Twitter followers that the incident caused her to miss her daughter's 13th birthday party.
GWR tweeted back saying the disruption to the service had been caused by a person being hit by a train earlier.
It advised her to e-mail the company if she wanted to make a complaint about a member of staff.
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