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Giant tortoise halts trains in Norfolk.

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Old 1st August 2022, 23:16
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Giant tortoise halts trains in Norfolk.

A giant tortoise brought trains to a halt when it was found on a railway track.

The injured animal was spotted near Harling Road, north east of Thetford, Norfolk, on the Cambridge-bound line at about 12:40 BST.

Greater Anglia said three services were affected by the tortoise's presence.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-62377928


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Old 2nd August 2022, 04:56
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Haha, thanks Philip. We regularly had to stop trains when there were swans or horses/cattle on the line.

But a giant tortoise in Norfolk - that's got to be a first!
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I think I posted a time back about the time we hit an elephant crossing the track when I was a fireman on the old Rhodesian Railways. We had to stop, and before you could say "what the hell was that" the African's in the coach behind the loco were out with knives and cut as much meat from the elephant as they could. Free meat in Africa was worth it's weight in gold. Not the sort of meat I would eat, unless I was starving. At least they cleared enough of the beast for us to carry on.
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I think I posted a time back about the time we hit an elephant crossing the track when I was a fireman on the old Rhodesian Railways. We had to stop, and before you could say "what the hell was that" the African's in the coach behind the loco were out with knives and cut as much meat from the elephant as they could. Free meat in Africa was worth it's weight in gold. Not the sort of meat I would eat, unless I was starving. At least they cleared enough of the beast for us to carry on.
These days it extends to goods lorries and anything not in a Fort Knox type enclosure mate. Truck overturns, cargo gone. New South African proverb : "I'm so hungry, I could steal a TV"
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