Sunday, October 20, 2013

Cygnet failure as swan on tracks delayed trains

Commuters at Winchester railway station had their journeys disrupted on Friday morning when a swan sat on to the tracks.





The young bird got on the tracks shortly after 7:30am, holding up a train running from Southampton to London.





The swan then moved to the southbound line where it delayed three further trains.


YouTube link. Original BBC video.



After a short stand-off it was rescued by a worker before being passed to the RSPCA.
Posted by arbroath at 6:02 am

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And now it will go breed more swans that are too stupid to stay off rail tracks. Good job interfering with natural selection.

3:43 pm

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