Escaped Pet Tortoise Wanders onto Train Tracks But is Saved by Railway Staff After …
Hours later, they came forward confirmed that Mr T had escaped from his home nearby before becoming a trespasser on the railway tracks.
Area Manager at Chiltern Railways, Giles Conway, said, “I don’t think anyone could quite believe it when we were alerted by customers at the station that there was a tortoise on the tracks.
“I am grateful to our station staff who located the tortoise and worked with Network Rail to safely retrieve it from the tracks unharmed.”
The man who retrieved the turtle, Steve Gill, a Network Rail mobile operations manager, said, “In my 30 plus years on the railway, this is the first time I’ve ever had to save a tortoise.”
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