Train stations in Brisbane with no wheelchair access are at the centre of a social media storm sparked by one woman's frustrated Facebook post.

Nearly 1000 people have reacted to Nuala Furtado's comments shared last night after she caught the train with a disabled friend and discovered firsthand the transport challenge her friend faced daily. “We got to [Sherwood] train station and I said, 'oh, this is the suburb that you live in,' and he said 'yes I know but for my entire life that I've been living in this suburb, I've never been able to get off at Sherwood because it's not wheelchair accessible,” Ms Furtado told ABC612 Brisbane this morning.

“Then he explained what he usually does, which is to get to Corinda, the next stop, hop off and then get the elevator up, and then his mum has to drive him home. So that's what we did.”

However the lift was broken, so Ms Furtado climbed the stairs to the ticket office to alert staff to the problem.

“[A staff member] came down and explained it was broken and gave us the only option, which was to wait for the next train, to get the train to Oxley, which is the next stop along, where the lifts were working – we'd have to go down in the lift, transfer to the other stop and get the train back because the elevator on the other platform at Corinda was working," she said.