Public transport
" ride his pony the 85-odd miles to Holyhead."
He'll probably get there faster...
Welshman attempts to board train with pony
A Welshman* has earned himself 15 minutes of CCTV fame by attempting to board a train with a pony. According to the BBC, the hooves fell off the bold equine transportation plan at Wrexham General station on Saturday, when the conductor of the 19:02 to Holyhead decided he wasn't having any of it. The man and his pony on the …
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Wednesday 18th May 2011 13:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Aren't human's also 99% pony DNA?
If he'd bought the ticket first and then been refused boarding, he might have had a case for the Rail Co laying on a taxi for the pony.
I'd love to have a horse on a train with me. Might even make me take the train, seeing as I never have any horses in my car.
Penguin because for some reason there's no pony or rail icon. Sort it out, Reg!
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Wednesday 18th May 2011 13:18 GMT MJI
I have ridden a bike in a train
While a student YEARS ago, I used to get to the Poly by train with my bike, it was very heavily loaded, but not far at the poly end to the room.
However at the station I had to carry everything on the bike, so it gets very heavy.
So how do I get it up the ramp into a BG? I ride it up!
Yes I have ridden a bike IN a train.
And in an underpass between platforms - very slowly.
By now you are wondering why it was easier to ride it - easy - it had an engine, and I don't think the station staff were overly impressed by an expansion piped 2 stroke being ran underground.
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Wednesday 18th May 2011 14:00 GMT Rob 101
Clearly defined allowed species needed
So, do they have some kind of reg size chart as to what size counts as dangerous?
I mean, some dogs are bigger than many sheep but I bet they would not allow a sheep. What about a dwarf pony?
Going the other way a golden eagle is smaller than a few dogs (wingspan excluded of course).
There needs to be a clearly defined list of what is and what is not allowed.
Possibly a book with silhouette cut-outs that have red or green borders and they can look at the animal through?
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Wednesday 18th May 2011 17:34 GMT Reticulate
An overlooked precedent.
Railway Porter (to Old Lady travelling with a Menagerie of Pets). "’STATION MASTER SAY, MUM, AS CATS IS ‘DOGS,’ AND RABBITS IS ‘DOGS,’ AND SO’S PARROTS; BUT THIS ’ERE ‘TORTIS’ IS A INSECT, SO THERE AIN’T NO CHARGE FOR IT!"
(Punch 1869)
I think this is a precedent to class ponies as dogs.
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Thursday 19th May 2011 12:42 GMT JaitcH
In the days before Thatcher buggered up the railways ...
and the Metropolitan line ran on electric traction to Rickmansworth where it switched to steam engines and later to diesel electric, the guards had a whole 'van'/carriage to themselves with plenty of room for passengers goods to be carried.
I have seen a small horse in a guards van in those times as well as a few sheep. Then they 'improved' the service by electrifying the rail to Amersham - but no more guards van.
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