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« on: November 26, 2012, 12:19:20 »

Seen at Cheltenham Spa Station. Driver airing his dinner perhaps?!
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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2012, 13:08:36 »

That should really come with a health warning at lunchtime.....  Grin
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2012, 18:18:27 »

Well that was a pheasant surprise!
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« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2012, 10:06:27 »

Well I guess it's the train driver behind that train who'll be getting a roast pheasant dinner tonight then Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2012, 11:38:00 »

..and the last thing to go through the pheasants mind......

the rest of him.....

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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2012, 00:08:30 »

Leave it there for a week, careful of the gall bladder, then bard and roast, serve with game chips...

I once squirted an inquisitive pigeon up the arse with my windscreen washer, outside Brunel Buttery on Bristol docks one lunchtime, something which my fellow diner on that day still talks of, over 20 years later This train driver has gone one better.
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2012, 11:18:12 »

Must be something about XC (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) services in that part of the country... As part of the training for my current job I cab rode an XC HST (High Speed Train) from Birmingham down to Bristol, and we had a 100 mph encounter with a pheasant somewhere in Gloucestershire. The driver barely even batted an eyelid and was rather amused when I almost jumped out of my skin. I do have a photo of the power car at Temple Meads, although it's only got a few feathers stuck to the horn grille, nothing like the whole pheasant attached to the front of that 170!
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