Dog’s Non-Stop Run

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 75, 30 July 1948, Page 7

Dog’s Non-Stop Run

Inspector Pinegar; who deals with cases of emergency on the Northern' line of the London Underground, recently broadcast in the North American Service the story of the dog that ran six. miles in the electric underground railway: “It happened during ■ the peak rush-hour traffic when the train service is approximately at one and a half minure intervals. The dog entered the Angel—how it got there we do not know-—but it just preceded the train and. carried on for six miles through tunnels, stations and through a junction. It had no lights to guide it, only the rails. The signalman at Kennington did suggest throwing the points to see whether it would go into a siding, but unfortunately it did not. It went on to Clapham Common, and there I suppose it thought it had reached its destination, and ran along the platform. It had enough sense to run up a stationary staircase, and not go up the escalator, which is most dangerous for dogs. It passed the collector, no ticket was given up,, and off it went.