Train Collides with Cow!

On Thursday morning, after having attended the Birmingham Uni Postgraduate Open Day the previous day, I boarded the 08:03 Virgin Voyager service (train) to Edinburgh via Leeds.

Then having called at Tamworth & Burton-upon-Trent, just half-hour into the journey, the train suddenly starts breaking heavily, in coach C we hear a bump and feel a lot of jolting followed by the train coming to an abrupt halt. An announcement from the train manager tells us that we had just hit a cow that was on the rails! :-O

Events then took a nasty turn after about one hour standing still, the train was deemed out of service due to damage to the braking system. We were then dropped off at Willington station (nr. Derby) and put onto the (delayed due to us being in the way), Newcastle train - unfortunately this train was not running to Leeds, so I had to change at Sheffield to get the 1hr-long journey up to Leeds.

In the end, I was about 2hours later arriving in Leeds and late to my 12noon lecture!

An unbelievable set of events!

Thank God in my prayers, that the train did not derail! :-)

Tuba x