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Post by metrailway on Aug 28, 2012 20:35:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2012 20:41:36 GMT
I saw a mouse on the platform at Knightsbridge the other day; it's the first time I've seen them away from the tracks. Sadly it ran away before I could get my camera out.
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Post by Ben on Aug 28, 2012 22:33:03 GMT
Saw a tiny one on Baker Street 6 a few months ago, no bigger than a 20p piece. Watched it dart around in tiny lines and circles by the wall for ten minutes or so, then it found a hole and went away. Shouldn't have moved as I probably scared it! Probably for the best though as it was right at the end of the platform near the junction, might have looked dodgey just standing there...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2012 22:36:26 GMT
You often see them late at night before the last trains, darting around on the platforms and down the passageways. You will sometimes see them down on the track and suicide pits, doing their cleaning duties, throughout the day.
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Post by melikepie on Sept 6, 2012 13:51:58 GMT
This reminds of a petition I saw on the government epetition website ages ago about giving passports to mice on the underground to allow free travel. I wonder what ever happened to that?
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Post by harrowman on Sept 6, 2012 14:37:24 GMT
The link below shows the said mice on the rails. Pet Shop Boys music video (Home And Dry)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2012 16:22:34 GMT
Apparently I had a close encounter with a mouse, but, not knowing how I would react, my Lord Tubeboy did not draw my attention to it until after the event! Incidentally I would probably have given him a biscuit!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2012 22:45:57 GMT
This could be a business opportunity, get your camera head down to Farringdon Station, find a tourist and a mouse and get them to say cheese (this is optional for the mouse)- £5 a photo ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2012 8:52:45 GMT
Apparently, the best places to spot mice running around the tracks of the underground are Waterloo station (northbound on the Bakerloo line) and any platform at Oxford Circus....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2012 9:09:40 GMT
I see at least one every day on any platform between Marble Arch and Liverpool Street on the Central Line, mostly towards the head- and tail-walls. At Bond Street on the Eastbound if you look across the track there's a sort of shelf by the headwall behind the stopping board. This is rampant with mice and some TOps open the cab door and leave food for them.
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Post by trt on Oct 4, 2012 9:33:39 GMT
The link below shows the said mice on the rails. Pet Shop Boys music video (Home And Dry) What about this one? Anyone else remember these? |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Oct 4, 2012 12:31:57 GMT
I see at least one every day on any platform between Marble Arch and Liverpool Street on the Central Line, mostly towards the head- and tail-walls. At Bond Street on the Eastbound if you look across the track there's a sort of shelf by the headwall behind the stopping board. This is rampant with mice and some TOps open the cab door and leave food for them. Wouldn't this encourage the mice to stay? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2012 12:45:31 GMT
I am not a fan of the NYC Subway but what I know is they have lots of rats in every stations - everywhere!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2012 14:34:05 GMT
indbmtirt - You are so right about rats on the NYC subway - and big ones. Some I have seen are over a foot long.
Once after eating at Forlini's, we walked down to Columbus Park around Five Points, and every park bench and all the areas around them were literally loaded with huge rats. They must have been tourists! It was a bit of a shock for almost broad daylight.
Although I know they are around my area, I have only seen one large rat and maybe a dozen mice in the last 45 years here. I guess they are respectful of our queasiness in Kentucky. [My 7 to 10 cats probably helped, too!]
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Post by railtechnician on Oct 8, 2012 16:01:24 GMT
Fear not, there are more rats on the London Underground than passengers! They would occasionally be seen in the daytime on open sections of track but during engineering hours they are seen all over the system, some are as big as cats especially around Aldgate and Whitechapel where they would follow us around at night hoping to find something tasty. A colleague left his toolbag and sandwiches on a platform bench at Whitechapel one night while we were on the track a few yards away. When we stopped for a cuppa around 0300 he reached for his sandwiches and found that a rat had been there before him!
At Kennington we had to remove the dead rats and disinfect the duct boxes in the platform before we could stand the stench to get down and rod the ducts to run new cables. Rats live at many Northern line stations, they like to make nests in convenient voids like the cubby holes that some telephones are located in. One always knows where the rats are nesting because they are particularly attracted to discarded chocolate bar wrappers and collect them to make a cosy home. We'd often find the tell tale wrappers and lots of silver paper when doing telephone maintenance in the platform kiosks.
It is said that where mice live on a station there are generally no rats to be found, it may be so but I don't know. Liverpool Street was awash with mice as was Embankment. We used to have a room on the eastbound District line platform as an office, as one opened the door and switched on the light the mice would scurry away into their hiding places ready to come out to play again when we left to go to work!
Rats and mice are bad news but the pigeons are even worse, they also stink to high heaven when they die in the netting when they nest, West Brompton was a station I recall as being particularly bad as was the west end of Acton Town station and on the H&C Barbican siding used to be particularly bad too, pigeon droppings are extremely hazardous to health and diseases caught from them can be fatal as can leptospirosis which can be caught from skin contact with rats urine.
To be honest I never worried about mice on the Underground, there used to be a family of white mice living under the platform at Clapham Common back in the 1970s, it's the only place i ever saw them. There are far worse things like the cockroaches that used to infest the old signal school offices at Earls Court station or the wasps that lived in the power room at Acton West IMR.
Beware of the mice! No,no,no, beware of rats and flying rats (pigeons) !
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 9:54:22 GMT
Fear not, there are more rats on the London Underground than passengers! They would occasionally be seen in the daytime on open sections of track but during engineering hours they are seen all over the system, some are as big as cats especially around Aldgate and Whitechapel where they would follow us around at night hoping to find something tasty. A colleague left his toolbag and sandwiches on a platform bench at Whitechapel one night while we were on the track a few yards away. When we stopped for a cuppa around 0300 he reached for his sandwiches and found that a rat had been there before him! At Kennington we had to remove the dead rats and disinfect the duct boxes in the platform before we could stand the stench to get down and rod the ducts to run new cables. Rats live at many Northern line stations, they like to make nests in convenient voids like the cubby holes that some telephones are located in. One always knows where the rats are nesting because they are particularly attracted to discarded chocolate bar wrappers and collect them to make a cosy home. We'd often find the tell tale wrappers and lots of silver paper when doing telephone maintenance in the platform kiosks. It is said that where mice live on a station there are generally no rats to be found, it may be so but I don't know. Liverpool Street was awash with mice as was Embankment. We used to have a room on the eastbound District line platform as an office, as one opened the door and switched on the light the mice would scurry away into their hiding places ready to come out to play again when we left to go to work! Rats and mice are bad news but the pigeons are even worse, they also stink to high heaven when they die in the netting when they nest, West Brompton was a station I recall as being particularly bad as was the west end of Acton Town station and on the H&C Barbican siding used to be particularly bad too, pigeon droppings are extremely hazardous to health and diseases caught from them can be fatal as can leptospirosis which can be caught from skin contact with rats urine. To be honest I never worried about mice on the Underground, there used to be a family of white mice living under the platform at Clapham Common back in the 1970s, it's the only place i ever saw them. There are far worse things like the cockroaches that used to infest the old signal school offices at Earls Court station or the wasps that lived in the power room at Acton West IMR. Beware of the mice! No,no,no, beware of rats and flying rats (pigeons) ! Wow, those are good "rat" stories to tell! Wish they can refurbish all those stations and make them rat-free. Before going into the forums, I thought the LU was rat free. It wasn't, and the problem is worse in the NYC subway - I've seen some news that a woman was attacked by a rat in the NYC Subway and was sent to the hospital and discharged. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 10:57:08 GMT
2 big RATs are lurking somewhere on the Met! ;D
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Post by trt on Oct 10, 2012 11:28:37 GMT
I watched Ghostbusters 2 again last night. That bit where they were winding Winston up about the rats in the abandoned subway was priceless!  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 15:38:53 GMT
Acton Town is still bad the trainstops and shunt signals get caked in it
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