Fat pigeon blamed for airport rail link outage

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Photo: Rev Stan / Flick

 

BANGKOK — A pigeon was blamed Tuesday for a malfunction on the Airport Rail Link that left hundreds of passengers stranded in stifling heat the night before.

 

The evening commuter rush was underway when the pigeon, said to be quite large, flew into a motor at about 6:30pm, according to Suthep Panpeng of the State Railway of Thailand’s Electric Train Co.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/transpo/2017/03/14/fat-pigeon-blamed-airport-rail-link-outage/

 

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Twice in a month?

 

Somebody needs some new ideas.

 

Finally Finally the Thais are learning something from the British, Network Rail to be exact.  Their service interruption was due to the wrong type of pigeon.

Time to bring out the fat cats to drive away those fat pigeons...

I would like to know more about the pigeon. 

Fix the problem so pigeons of any size cannot fly into the motors.

Finally Finally the Thais are learning something from the British, Network Rail to be exact.  Their service interruption was due to the wrong type of pigeon.

Not A Union Member either.[emoji885]


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was it a Burmese pigeon?

17 hours ago, Crossy said:

Twice in a month?

 

Somebody needs some new ideas.

 

Quit feeding the pigeons as a skinny pigeon would not have caused this delay.

2 hours ago, Colabamumbai said:

I would like to know more about the pigeon. 

It was probably from Myanmar. A Thai pigeon would never interrupt a rail link.