The snails which held up a train in Moi’occo the other 1 day by settling on the lines are not the first of the minor creatures to upset a railway system. Two years ago a swarm of locusts disorganised the railway between Niort and Fontenay-le-Comte in France by settling on the permanent way, and the same pests have more than once caused trouble on the South African railways, when a train has run into a swarm crossing the lines, and their crushed bodies have rendered the rails too slippery for the wheels to grip. Not many years ago, also, a swarm of bees held up the traffic at Burgess Hill Station, on the Brighton line, in England, and a solitary cockroach by climbing into the telegraphic instrument of a signal-box once delayed an express between Toronto and Winnipeg, in Canada, for some considerable time.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5494, 30 October 1929, Page 2
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