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Delays due to a stag party on the line

22 October 2009
 

With a bowler tip to the Railway Eye blog, it would seem things got a little out of hand on one train in South Wales recently. The driver reported to the Port Talbot signal box that members of a stag party were seen jumping out of the train’s windows whilst it was stopped at a signal (incidently this was due to the report of a person under a train which turned out to be a cardboard cut out of cartoon character Bart Simpson...).

As a result the train manager pulled the communication cord...

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