D6130
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Must have been a bit close to the CATenary for comfort!
cats are unpredictable. If it doesn't jump down very soon after the train starts to move, then jumping (or falling) quickly becomes unsurvivableAnd that caused a delay...?
Just move the train. Tiddles will soon decide it’s better to come down.
Not sure why the train was delayed due to a cat that’s definitely not in the rules
Yes, it was!
What?Would the cat not have moved with a blast of something electrically safe from a fire extinguisher?
Nobody's going to be spraying anything at a cat...Would the cat not have moved with a blast of something electrically safe from a fire extinguisher?
Seem to recall that the aftermath of that unusual incident was featured on an episode of "Paddington Station 24/7".Few years back in on GWML near West Ealing pigeon short-circuited the OLE with pedestrian over-bridge just west of that station, causing the concrete that was making the walking deck to break and fall on to the line ( that is what I heard on a day being stuck at Paddington) .
Reason for delays ( massive) :
exploding pigeon
What?
I think @2192 is asking whether attacking it using a fire extinguisher would have been considered as a means to remove the cat.What?
Not to mention the cat .... !And social media would take a rather dim view…
it is fairly obvious: you might get it in the neck for upsetting the kids seeing a cute cat getting zapped with 25kv!
Far better and less open to prosecution
I would get it in the neck if I cautioned a train for a dog or a cat
What kids at 2230 in the middle of a national lockdown?
By all means make reasonable efforts to dislodge the cat before departure but I'm not sure that it merits delaying the train's departure. That cat is not in distress up there and is not in need of rescuing, and it is certainly capable of getting itself down from that position. If it's anything like my neighbour's cat (and it's behaviour certainly suggests it is) it just likes being up in an elevated position where it can watch the comings and goings, but as soon as it's position becomes untenable it will decide for itself that it's time to move.
My own suspicion is that this isn't the first time that cat has been up on a train roof but merely the first time it's been reported.
It just goes to show that you never own a cat, you're only it's servant! A cat will always do what it wants to do, and will treat you with complete contempt (and very sharp claws) if you try to do something to it that it doesn't like.
I'd certainly report a dog loose on or near the line on the basis that they tend to be hotly pursued by their owner in a misguided attempt to get the dog back under control.
Can someone advise the clearance between the top of a carriage and the catenary? A cat standing on its four feet is about 9" high to the top of its ears, and one can add another 9" or so if it puts its tail up in the air. Might there have been some danger of the Euston Tabby getting to close to the wire?
I don't see any wires in the original photo, do they run to the end of the platform ? Maybe the cat knows this.Can someone advise the clearance between the top of a carriage and the catenary? A cat standing on its four feet is about 9" high to the top of its ears, and one can add another 9" or so if it puts its tail up in the air. Might there have been some danger of the Euston Tabby getting to close to the wire?
If they didn't then locomotive haulage would be difficult! From orientation of the platforms I think this is the "country" end of the train but I'm not certain.I don't see any wires in the original photo, do they run to the end of the platform ? Maybe the cat knows this.
From the orientation of the PIS display, and the snapshot of OTT, it looks to be end nearest the buffers. And yes, the OLE looks to be at the normal height rather than being crammed in close. In the photo it's difficult to see (if it even is in shot, I can't tell) because it's the same colour as the upper part of the roof.If they didn't then locomotive haulage would be difficult! From orientation of the platforms I think this is the "country" end of the train but I'm not certain.
With Euston having been re-built in the 1960s I suspect the OLE is set at a preferred rather than the absolute minimum height.
Totally different situation. The train was stationary, the cat wasn't creating a harmful situation, and the passengers were able to be transferred to an alternative train without a big issue. A dog loose on a 70mph carriageway is creating a constantly changing situation with the potential for multiple deaths any second.Police deliberately ran over and killed dog running loose on A55
North Wales Police said the foxhound had been running loose on the A55 at varying locations between the Llanfairfechan roundabout and the Conwy tunnel early on Monday morning.www.dailymail.co.uk
Couldn't they just kill the cat like North Wales Police did with a dog on the motorway?
North Wales Police didn't seem to have a problem giving the order!Would you have given the order to kill it if you were the Station supervisor/train service manager?
I think that you ignore the power of social media, here. However unlikely due to the time (but we do know that there were passengers around), it would have only taken one person who thought that it would be a good idea to film it and then put it on Facebook etc. to produce all manner of problems.
Might there have been some danger of the Euston Tabby getting to close to the wire?
Agreed - they have generated a nice happy story and avoided very bad PR by offing a cute cat. is that a so bad?It's just fodder for making a nice fluffy, feel-good story.
As I said, it was a completely different situation. It was a choice between the dog or a multi-car pile up. I'd probably prefer, on balance, to clear up 1 dog than the occupants of 5 cars & lorries.North Wales Police didn't seem to have a problem giving the order!
Agreed - they have generated a nice happy story and avoided very bad PR by offing a cute cat. is that a so bad?