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Train damaged after hitting animal on track (From The Argus)
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Train damaged after hitting animal on track
7:50am Thursday 19th April 2012 in News By Rebecca Evans
A train was damaged after hitting an animal on the track.
Half a busy commuter train was put out of action yesterday after hitting the animal causing overcrowding on the remaining carriages.
First Capital Connect yesterday apologised for the overcrowding on the 07.50 Brighton to Bedford train.
Only four carriages, instead of the usual eight, were able to run because an earlier train hit an unidentified animal on the tracks near Luton Airport Parkway at about 3.30am.
The train was out of action because the collision caused an air leak and the brakes could not be released.
Another train was used to tow the stricken carriages into a nearby station causing a carriage shortage for early morning Brighton commuters.
A FCC spokesman said: “This was a highly unusual incident and we would like to apologise to our customers for the inevitable overcrowding it caused to this morning’s Brighton service.”
Comments(16)
nosolution
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8:12am Thu 19 Apr 12
All 9 of me
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8:14am Thu 19 Apr 12
Unbias
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8:57am Thu 19 Apr 12
Juleyanne wrote:Well said.
Spare a thought for the poor animal involved not just the inconvenience caused to passengers.
adorable
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9:13am Thu 19 Apr 12
torrbob
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9:24am Thu 19 Apr 12
Morpheus
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9:30am Thu 19 Apr 12
Crystal Ball
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10:21am Thu 19 Apr 12
john5001
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10:22am Thu 19 Apr 12
Morpheus wrote:nice one
It's a bit suspicious. An unidentified animal near Luton Airport. Was it an illegal immigrant?
PorkBoat
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10:38am Thu 19 Apr 12
Dr Pork
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11:36am Thu 19 Apr 12
PorkBoat wrote:no, Eric Burdon.
A train was damaged after hitting an animal? What was it, an elephant?
He's massive.
Goldenwight
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11:40am Thu 19 Apr 12
I thought our railways had things like fences alongside the tracks to prevent this sort of thing?
And in keeping with the tone of some earlier posts, did it have a valid ticket for the carriage which it ran into?
cookie_brighton
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2:15pm Thu 19 Apr 12
My father worked on the permenant way in yorkshire, it was part of his job to attend scenes of reported..."HITS" to identify the object that was reported being hit...on several occassions the object hit was a person, but mostly cows, so it surprises me that they say it was an animal but yet do not say what animal..........hmmm
m
Goldenwight
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3:05pm Thu 19 Apr 12
cookie_brighton wrote:Presumably this is being kept confidential until relatives have been notified?
It surprises me that they do not say what .....animal was hit. My father worked on the permenant way in yorkshire, it was part of his job to attend scenes of reported..."HIT
S" to identify the object that was reported being hit...on several occassions the object hit was a person, but mostly cows, so it surprises me that they say it was an animal but yet do not say what animal..........hmmm m
Cow seems likely though- although a seagull at 80mph can do quite a lot of damage.
Crystal Ball
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4:46pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Goldenwight wrote:I didn't know a seagull could fly @ 80mph?
cookie_brighton wrote:Presumably this is being kept confidential until relatives have been notified?
It surprises me that they do not say what .....animal was hit. My father worked on the permenant way in yorkshire, it was part of his job to attend scenes of reported..."HIT
S" to identify the object that was reported being hit...on several occassions the object hit was a person, but mostly cows, so it surprises me that they say it was an animal but yet do not say what animal..........hmmm m
Cow seems likely though- although a seagull at 80mph can do quite a lot of damage.
JoePara
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6:58pm Thu 19 Apr 12
Juleyanne says...
8:01am Thu 19 Apr 12