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Title: Unusual Reason for Cancellation Post by: CLPGMS on October 02, 2014, 11:38:10 I notice that today's 0950 Paddington to Moreton-in-Marsh terminated at Oxford due to "animals on the line" according to FGW. Realtimetrains says it was due to "the train striking a bird". This also affected the 1150 return, which started from Oxford.
Title: Re: Unusual Reason for Cancellation Post by: Network SouthEast on October 02, 2014, 11:54:48 Train hit a pheasant, smashing the windscreen. I believe the driver is OK.
Title: Re: Unusual Reason for Cancellation Post by: JayMac on October 02, 2014, 11:56:15 Struck a pheasant, resulting in a broken windscreen.
EDIT: Beaten to it. What he said↑↑↑ ;D Title: Re: Unusual Reason for Cancellation Post by: IanL on October 02, 2014, 19:27:49 And this was also the reason we were given for the overcrowding on the 1732 Oxford to Gt Malvern service^..the 180 Adelante was replaced by a two car turbo.
Title: Re: Unusual Reason for Cancellation Post by: IndustryInsider on October 03, 2014, 09:56:51 Not the same train, but here's an example of just what damage a pheasant can do when it collides with a speeding Turbo in just the right place!
The outer skin was smashed and the inner skin partly smashed - enough that the driver was carefully brushing shards of glass off his lap! Needless to say, the train was cancelled! (https://www.flickr.com/photos/11793436@N08/15239909790) (https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5597/15239909790_0891ecd760.jpg) Title: Re: Unusual Reason for Cancellation Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 03, 2014, 23:24:49 ... the driver was carefully brushing shards of glass off his lap ... ... whilst apparently muttering something about 'plucking pheasants' - allegedly. ::) ;) :-X Title: Re: Unusual Reason for Cancellation Post by: TonyK on October 04, 2014, 00:10:51 Not the same train, but here's an example of just what damage a pheasant can do when it collides with a speeding Turbo in just the right place! Somewhere, a pheasant is saying that this is an example of what damage a train can do when it collides with a speeding pheasant... This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |