Hooted at by a train

[rhiannongriff]

Yesterday me and my friend were cantering alongside a railway line and a slow train came past.

We were waving loads and the train hooted at us!

(and obviously our horses had to spook) Then all the passengers were looking out the window and waving too, by this time we were screaming and waving and going a little crazy. It was so fun

Any one else ever tried waving at trains?

 

[rowdreyer]

Your horses sound brilliant, talk about bomb proof!!

 

[superstar565]

The sounds so much fun!!! Never tired it to be honest!

 

[newboult51]

Wow! We hack out near a railway line too. My horsee always looks longingly at the trains when they pass. I wonder if I should buy him a train set for his birthday?

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

We have a train line just a field away - its as exciting as it gets here!! - and have a choice of 3 level crossings we can use. The horses can see and hear the trains in their fields so are used to them and when waiting at a level crossing we have been known to wave at passengers. The only thing that sometimes surprises them is the flashing lights before the crossing shuts.

 

[Erehwemos]

Never tried it with trains, but my old hacking ground used to consist of fields that ran parallel to the M4, and I loved galloping along and waving to the lorries, and counting how many hooted back to me

The best ones were always foreign lorries, and coaches

Oh, and the VERY best was the time the Renault F1 lorries were all going in convoy, and they waved and beeped to me!!!!

 

[mattilda]

I wouldn't be waving, I'd be hanging on for grim death as the ginger nut disappeared into the distance!!

 

[gigs]

With you Mattilda - would be doing a cling on !!!

 

[rhiannongriff]

we were heading towards a road

I see your logic

 

[rhiannongriff]

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The best ones were always foreign lorries, and coaches

[/ QUOTE ] Yes, and white vans

 

[mattilda]

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we were heading towards a road

I see your logic

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Not having a go at you, it sounds like you had a great time. Just that my horse would leg it if he even saw a train never mind have one hoot at him!! He is a tad crazy.

 

[Chumsmum]

I used to hack next to a steam railway and the passengers would wave to me.

The reason I bought my pony is because he was too busy eating the verge to notice the steam train going past the first time I rode him

 

[Dubsie]

If you're ever on the train from Paddington to Reading, look out for a cute little grey Welsh Sect A with a little girl in flourescent bib walking on the road by the line a mile or two out of Twyford (on the left of the train). Being as she lives in a field opposite (the pony that is..) and there are usually a couple of trains a minute we can be right next to the line, with the train tooting and she doesn't bat an eyelid. Quite often on the slow trains people do wave, but not a hope of a canter (nowhere to go faster) Sounds great fun.