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Title: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: RailCornwall on May 29, 2019, 15:54:22 Causing local media breakdown this afternoon. The critter is on the Cornwall side of the main structure around 100 metres from Saltash Station.
https://twitter.com/BBCCornwall/status/1133746820981641219 Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: Timmer on May 29, 2019, 16:37:44 Matches the colour of the ironwork! :D :D
Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: bobm on May 29, 2019, 16:47:15 We are certainly a nation of animal lovers.
Rescue attempts being streamed on Cornwall Live... https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-cat-rescue-saltash-bridge-2919583 (https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/live-cat-rescue-saltash-bridge-2919583) Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: RailCornwall on May 29, 2019, 17:32:59 (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7v3dLQWsAAg67t.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7v3dLHXkAAERVk.jpg) (Images - Twitter) Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: bobm on May 29, 2019, 17:35:06 Rescue attempts now postponed until early tomorrow.
Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: JayMac on May 29, 2019, 18:59:54 I trust the effect on train services into and out of Cornwall wasn't to cat-astrophic today.
Here's hoping for a purrfect outcome tomorrow, with as brief a paws in the train service as necessary. Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: bobm on May 29, 2019, 20:21:32 That was pun-y. ;D
Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: SandTEngineer on May 29, 2019, 21:00:07 Not a very good advert for NR, all those rusty bridge girders being shown all around the world at the moment..... ::)
Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: johnneyw on May 29, 2019, 22:33:25 I trust the effect on train services into and out of Cornwall wasn't to cat-astrophic today. Here's hoping for a purrfect outcome tomorrow, with as brief a paws in the train service as necessary. Bah, you beat me to every pun I could think off, CATastrophic, my feeble attempts. Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: Pb_devon on May 30, 2019, 08:16:50 Reported on Plymouth Live that the cat got itself off the bridge at 23.00 and went home. Hopefully the owner notified everyone, so the planned overnight line closure for a rescue attempt could be cancelled.
Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: Clan Line on May 30, 2019, 11:54:16 Reported on Plymouth Live that the cat got itself off the bridge at 23.00 and went home. Hopefully the owner notified everyone, so the planned overnight line closure for a rescue attempt could be cancelled. Must have been feline hungry and went home fur tea ! Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: broadgage on May 30, 2019, 16:38:21 Glad to see that the cat is safe and returned home.
Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: rogerw on May 30, 2019, 18:31:25 Are we sure it wasn't having a kittin in protest about the surfboard ban
Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: Robin Summerhill on May 30, 2019, 19:20:59 OK so mow it is a good news story.
However, the even better news might be that we now see the end of these cat puns... ;) Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: grahame on May 30, 2019, 19:32:59 Purr-fect end to the story
However, the even better news might be that we now see the end of these cat puns... ;) Fur now maybe ... Title: Re: Cat 'stuck' on the Royal Albert Bridge. Post by: old original on May 30, 2019, 21:04:46 Can we just paws now please?
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