Driver picks up unwary bird .....

[ExRes]

Report from BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-26629486

Owl survives 300-mile train trip from Glasgow to Crick

A tawny owl has been named Lucky after clinging to the front of a train for a journey of more than 300 miles.

The bird was found below the driver's cabin of the Class 66 locomotive as it pulled into Stobart's freight terminal in Crick, Northamptonshire.

It is thought he had been clinging on since the train set off from Mossend, near Glasgow.

Lucky is now recovering from a sprained wing at Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary.

"It's a miracle, really," said sanctuary owner Geoff Grewcock...

Under EWS the bird would now have signed the route for weekend engineering work

 

[GWRtom]

Lucky bird.

 

[overtonchris]

I've got to admit the content didn't quite match what I was expecting from the title!!!!! I've had a bit to do with these feathery chaps in a past life and they are amazingly resilient. One can give you a real savaging and another will literally 'play-dead' and lie on their backs immobile in your hands....... AND I AM TALKING ABOUT OWLS before any unseemliness occurs!! Great link.

 

[Lockwood]

Under EWS the bird would now have signed the route for weekend engineering work

Were it a passenger service, it would have been issued a penalty fare

 

[Darren R]

Were it a passenger service, it would have been issued a penalty fare

There would have been 'owls of protest if it had been! (sorry!)

 

[DownSouth]

There would have been 'owls of protest if it had been! (sorry!)

There could even have been questions in parliament about it.

 

[andypops]

How many people are going to fit scale owls as "bufferbeam detailing" on their class 66 models?!

 

[eastwestdivide]

I can offer an alternative, a sparrow making the most of a dead fly takeaway, during a hot summer day in 1983. The train was stationary though.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

There could even have been questions in parliament about it.

Well I got that one anyway.

 

[fishquinn]

How many people are going to fit scale owls as "bufferbeam detailing" on their class 66 models?!

Good one, might be another thing Bachmann need to bring out,
Lucky owl!

 

[Welshman]

Apparently it was wanting to go to Hooton.
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---

Well I got that one anyway.

And so did I ........eventually.

 

[91103eastcoast]

Were it a passenger service, it would have been issued a penalty fare

I'm just waiting for this to crop up in the Disputes section of the forum...

"I flew onto the train and now they want 20 quid off me"

 

[Welshman]

I'm just waiting for this to crop up in the Disputes section of the forum...

"I flew onto the train and now they want 20 quid off me"

Yes - whenever we hear that complaint, it's usually from someone whose feathers have been ruffled.

[Sorry - I'm going now]

 

[Moonshot]

Apparently the owl swore profanities many times at his rescuer........the bird was later diagnosed as suffering from irritable owl syndrome !!

 

[David57]

Yes, I got the Parliament gag as well!

 

[Passenger John]

Wanted to travel south as up north it was "too-wet-to-woo"