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Heard it all now.
Currently on a train from Cardiff to North Wales, delayed at Hereford as we hit a pheasant, we are currently speculating how big this pheasant was to damage the train!==================================
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18th Oct 2017 4:42 pm
J77
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One of our drivers hit a pheasant with one of our coaches, the bird completely obliterated the windscreen. That was a 50mph strike.23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green
18th Oct 2017 4:45 pm
Mogwyth
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Obviously not of that magnitude as we are now under way again.==================================
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18th Oct 2017 4:50 pm
Mr Kington
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Legally the next train is allowed to pick it up and take it home I believe 😀James favourite hobby is writing in the third person.
18th Oct 2017 4:52 pm
J77
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Someone recovering if for their evening meal 23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green
18th Oct 2017 4:52 pm
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My mate hit one in his FFRR and asked me why I was laughing I told him that it would cost him a grand for the grill and light he got a bill for £1400 quid I still nowLand Rover 90 - deceased
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18th Oct 2017 4:52 pm
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We breed them big around here
18th Oct 2017 5:59 pm
professorpool
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Re: Heard it all now.
Mogwyth wrote:
Currently on a train from Cardiff to North Wales, delayed at Hereford as we hit a pheasant, we are currently speculating how big this pheasant was to damage the train!
Peasant. Hit a PEASANT...
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18th Oct 2017 9:51 pm
Mogwyth
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Funnily enough my brother in law said the same thing, he being a Welshman I replied and said well we were in England!==================================
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18th Oct 2017 9:58 pm
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Hitting an Englishman is not cause to stop a good Welsh train IMHOD3 07 SE - still going strong
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18th Oct 2017 10:38 pm
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Working at Aston Martin and a Vanquish hit one on test at the Millbrook bowl at big 3 figure speed.
Went clean through the headlamp into the engine bay, the bumper and bonnet in process and made a hell of a mess of the engine bay......
19th Oct 2017 8:20 am
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I take it that the pheasant didn't fly off afterwards then? 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
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19th Oct 2017 8:25 am
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You should see the mess they make of cars and greenhouses when they fall from 35 yards up A Canada Goose through an orangery was the best one I've seen.DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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Racing a Ford Anglia 105E in the mid-60's I was the first car out for practice, at IIRC, Croft.
A pheasant flew into, and through, the windscreen car, and the remains broke the back of, the admittedly light weight, passenger seat.
We fitted a new windscreen, welded up the seat, and pressure washed the car, and I competed the next day. But the Anglia stank of "dead meat" for many more months, despite more pressure washes, and replacing the passenger seat.
It scared the s t out of me as well as covering me in pheasant s t & remains.
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Currently on a train from Cardiff to North Wales, delayed at Hereford as we hit a pheasant, we are currently speculating how big this pheasant was to damage the train!
You probably won't be the only ones speculating as to its size - birds and animals bigger than a pheasant are Network Rail's responsibility and they have to pick up the tab; from a pheasant down, it's the TOC's tough luck - the odd pheasant is fair game...Current: Discovery 3 06MY (55 reg) HSE Auto Zambezi Silver Allisport Fast Road Intercooler, V8 Brakes, Silicone IC Hoses, EGRs Blanked, Remapped, De-Cat pipe, FBHIC
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