Because the Cross Country trains, the original Voyagers, break down when waves crash on the top of them! This doesn’t happen with the GWR trains or when CC run HST trains, which sadly isn’t very often!
It's a long eared owl.
No GWR and there was several right up to the 2100hrs. If they can keep running, why can't cross country. Some of the trains are un-marked, so they may have been the cross country one's.
There are barn owl's, tawny owl's, long-eared owl's and I suspect this one is pole owl who only likes to sit a particular pole.
But was it a Cross country train?
Enlighten me. (I've read that they are used to scare off other birds but if that is the case why that particular telegraph pole and no others. It just seems such a random thing to do).
Fairly obvious i would have thought.
It's been the same for years.
A spokesman said: "In winter, this includes all our car parks in coastal resorts (Teignmouth, Dawlish, Dawlish Warren and Shaldon). So it costs people nothing to park in our car parks on Sundays throughout the festive period and beyond. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/news-opinion/christmas-shopping-free-parking-heres-2192985
It's a hoot