A candidate for news story of the year: a man turned up at Wrexham General station and attempted to board a train… with a pony.
Arriva Trains have helpfully released stills from the CCTV footage, one of which I have stolen to reproduce below. Click through to the BBC News report for a slideshow which includes such lovely images as Horse in Lift, Horse on Footbridge and Horse at Ticket Office.
I’m willing to bet that nobody would have batted an eyelid on Merseyrail.