Unauthorised use of Euston waiting room

[PaxVobiscum]

Pretty sure he (or she) was not intending to travel at all and certainly hadn't bought a ticket. Looks like a squatter to me. Mind you, the state of the place encourages such low life in my opinion.

Taken on Tuesday night while waiting to board the Caley Sleeper. Hope this guy didn't sneak (squeak?) on as well.

Apologies for poor quality images (stills from video shot in poor light).

 

[stut]

Wow, when were those walls and skirting last cleaned!

 

[SS4]

I'd have checked my breakfast very carefully

 

[Oswyntail]

That is one hell of a tale!

 

[Wolfie]

Pretty sure he (or she) was not intending to travel at all and certainly hadn't bought a ticket. Looks like a squatter to me. Mind you, the state of the place encourages such low life in my opinion.

Taken on Tuesday night while waiting to board the Caley Sleeper. Hope this guy didn't sneak (squeak?) on as well.

Apologies for poor quality images (stills from video shot in poor light).

Are you sure this wasn't a preview of the staff uniform after the new WCML franchise is let........

 

[Bungle73]

wow, when were those walls and skirting last cleaned!

1978.

 

[Schnellzug]

The spirit of Terence Cuneo will be pleased.

 

[Temple Meads]

1978.

There's no way it's that recent.

 

[Tim B]

There's no way it's that recent.

Yeah, I can definitely smell a rat .....

 

[brad465]

Reminds me of the Pied piper, and if the health inspector is released into this station, I can see Euston closed for at least weekend engineering (health cleaning) works for cleaning out the whole area.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

On second thoughts it might be a proper railway mouse.
Here you can see it
•arriving
•turning round
•waiting
•departing
•stopping at a signal
•entering a tunnel

Small .mov zipped:

 

[maddeningcrowds]

Is it a rat or a mouse?

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Is it a rat or a mouse?

I'm no expert, but I thought at the time it was a well-fed mouse. There was a group of foreign female students taking pictures of it - interestingly they seemed to find it cute (no standing on the chairs screaming or the like).

I imagine if people thought it was a rat it would have been a different matter.
Big mouse though.

 

[W-on-Sea]

I'd guess it was a well-fed mouse too, but only because some of the rats I've seen in central London are almost the size of small cats! Finsbury Square (even before the human squatters set up camp there) was a particularly bad place for them.

 

[Uzair]

Is it worth complaining to Network Rail about this?

 

[tbtc]

It recently came to Euston as it left the "sinking ship" of NXEA...

 

[DaveNewcastle]

Its a mouse, not a rat. One of the very real benefits of stations having their own cat(s) back in BR days was in rodent control.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Is it worth complaining to Network Rail about this?

It's the only source of entertainment in there apart from the CIS

 

[philjo]

Last time I was at South Kensington there were several running along the circle line platforms!

 

[Yew]

I think i saw one in a deep level tube line once (covent garden maybe?)

 

[deltic1989]

I saw a rat get fried on one of the live rails on the Bakerloo line once. None of the other passengers on the platform seemed bothered by the blue flash, must be a regular occurance.

 

[marks87]

Pretty sure he (or she) was not intending to travel at all and certainly hadn't bought a ticket. Looks like a squatter to me. Mind you, the state of the place encourages such low life in my opinion.

Taken on Tuesday night while waiting to board the Caley Sleeper. Hope this guy didn't sneak (squeak?) on as well.

Apologies for poor quality images (stills from video shot in poor light).

That's nothing - I spotted a mouse in the FC lounge once.

Maybe they were both intending to travel on the Caledonian Squeaker.

No?

Ach, I'll fetch meh coat...

 

[PaxVobiscum]

That's nothing - I spotted a mouse in the FC lounge once.

Maybe they were both intending to travel on the Caledonian Squeaker.

No?

Ach, I'll fetch meh coat...

Ye'll have had yer tea. (Note no <?>)

 

[NSE]

I think i saw one in a deep level tube line once (covent garden maybe?)

Oh mice/rats on the Underground is regular. As a daily user of Oxford Circus, they cover the Central line tracks.

 

[jon0844]

Pretty sure he (or she) was not intending to travel at all and certainly hadn't bought a ticket.

That's quite an accusation! How do you know the mouse hadn't bought a ticket?

I guess the mouse wouldn't want to use EC anytime soon, given how pathetic the cheese board is from the photos.

 

[Yew]

Oh mice/rats on the Underground is regular. As a daily user of Oxford Circus, they cover the Central line tracks.

Im guessing they have never heared of mousetraps then?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Im guessing they have never heared of mousetraps then?

Yeah, that's the long running Agatha Christie play in London isn't it?

 

[tbtc]

Will there be a dedicated section for mice at the new Waterloo sleeper terminal?

 

[DaveNewcastle]

I guess the mouse wouldn't want to use EC anytime soon, given how pathetic the cheese board is from the photos.

Apologies for conflating this thread with another (and those who don't follow that thread are likely to be puzzled), but I can't resist responding . . . . .

Here is the EC FC cheese board offering last night :-

Yes, you click on the image to make it larger, but still, the cheese does not appear.

@Yew. There are thousands of rats inhabiting the London Underground, as in most other cities. They say you're never more than 5 meters (or is it 10 meters, or 10 feet?) from a rat in London. There's plenty near where I work, though they often just appear as a brief movement in the peripheral field of vision..

 

[Firesprite]

That's quite an accusation! How do you know the mouse hadn't bought a ticket?

I guess the mouse wouldn't want to use EC anytime soon, given how pathetic the cheese board is from the photos.

Mice are not that fond of cheese. They prefer chocolate or biscuits instead.