Coloured cob found stuck on railway lines

(Image credit: British Transport Police)

A coloured cob had a lucky escape yesterday morning after it managed to get stuck on railway lines in Kent.

British Transport Police (BTP) officers were called to the scene in Hoo St Werburgh, in the Medway area, at about 8am yesterday (1 August).

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Coloured cob found stuck on railway lines

“We attended a different kind of job this morning where a horse had got itself stuck on the railway lines at Hoo,” a spokesman for BTP Kent said. “Luckily, members of the public had managed to cut the fence and secure the horse.”

A BTP spokesman told H&H today that the owner had since been found and notified, and reunited with the horse.

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