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Post by zbang on Mar 17, 2022 1:49:53 GMT
A friend who works for San Francisco's Muni railway posted a picture of him holding a small dog with the comment-
Some days my job is interesting. Meet “Line Delay”. This naughty boy ran into the Twin Peaks Tunnel at West Portal. I followed him on foot all the way to Forest Hill Station, and caught up with him under the inbound platform. (FH is about a mile from WP)
How often does this sort of thing happen in the greater TfL system? Not often at all on Muni, but then there are only a few tunnels (sigh).
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Post by class411 on Mar 17, 2022 6:53:13 GMT
Excellent name.
And I’m sure he’s a good boy really.
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 17, 2022 20:43:11 GMT
Not sure about animals in tunnels, but this is a thing.....
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Post by Chris M on Mar 17, 2022 20:52:32 GMT
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Post by londoner on Mar 17, 2022 21:24:43 GMT
These animals really need to get a moove on and stop swanning around, else I'll probably go barking mad!
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Post by zbang on Mar 17, 2022 23:03:02 GMT
... I'll probably go barking mad! But only on the District or Overground. |
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Post by johnlinford on Mar 18, 2022 8:00:01 GMT
I vaguely recall some delays because of an animal (dog or fox I think) getting in to one of the tunnel portals at Stratford on the Central line few years ago.
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Post by Colin on Mar 18, 2022 16:06:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2022 23:08:41 GMT
I have had a point failure think it was Dagenham East when a hedgehog was in the points
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Post by zbang on Mar 19, 2022 0:38:10 GMT
That's a quintessentially English failure.
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Post by jimbo on Mar 19, 2022 18:52:27 GMT
Going back near 50 years I had to retrieve a dead swan from the Met tracks at Moor Park. They weigh a tonne, well Google says up to 12kg! Had to check if ringed for the Queen, as that needs to be reported. More vague memory about a dog loose in the tube tunnels which took most of the the inter-peak day to catch. Reports from passing drivers were followed up by inspection from cab of train of section concerned, but the animal was terrified in unfamiliar territory with noise, arcing, etc and would flee, to reappear elsewhere. It was eventually collared exhausted. Maybe Northern Line, but could have been Victoria Line which was same operating division at the time.
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Post by theblackferret on Mar 20, 2022 10:50:24 GMT
I think the Central Line, out around Roding Valley & Buckhurst Hill, has had an occasional deer on the line, though you're more likely to see them line-side, thank goodness.
The Richmond end of the District, from memory, isn't near to the resident herds around Richmond Park, but someone else may know better, and whether or not any of them have oysters!
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Post by spsmiler on Mar 21, 2022 0:52:43 GMT
Not a cause for delays (as far as I'm aware) but the outer end of the Central line was known for rabbits (LOL - Blake Hall station was reputed as having more of these than human passengers!!!) and scorpions.
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Post by quex on Mar 22, 2022 11:32:59 GMT
Only tangentially TfL-related, but a couple of years ago almost everything through Clapham Junction was stopped on account of a dog that had escaped off down one of the platform ramps.
I'm told in situations of pets on the railway, trains are stopped not for the sake of the animal, but for the potential risk of the human running after their pet onto the live railway.
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