Badger Delays Train!

Top News story of the day comes from The Mirror:

RAIL services were yesterday disrupted - by a smouldering badger on the line.

Firefighters were called to investigate a smoking rail and found the dead animal which was on fire.

Watch manager Peter Brown said: "Thankfully I should think it died very quickly of electrocution, and did not suffer.

"Somebody had reported an electrical fire on the track at 8.30am. It was on fire and every time a train came past it reignited.

"The flames would die down but when another train passed the wind would cause the fire to start up again. I wasn't going to have trains stopped because the badger was already dead.

"We just told Network Rail there was a smouldering badger on the line. It didn't present a further danger."

A maintenance crew later removed the creature from the track near Tonbridge, Kent.
The cleaning operation led to some hold-ups to trains to London.

Network Rail said: "Delays were minimal."