The District line was brought to a halt at rush hour to allow workers to rescue an injured swan from the track.
Westbound trains were delayed last night as staff scooped up the “grubby and bedraggled” bird from a tunnel near Ravenscourt Park.
Two Transport for London workers gingerly carried the bird past commuters waiting on the platform and handed it to a vet for a check-up.
Tech writer Kate Bevan was on the Tube when her train came to a stop in the tunnel.
She said: “The driver said, ‘We can’t make any progress... as there’s a swan in the tunnel’. As we pulled very slowly into the station we saw two burly men carrying a grubby swan. It looked bedraggled.
“Seeing the Tube workers carrying the swan along the platform with such care and gentleness made me proud to be British. Everyone on the train smiled.”
Meanwhile, Marble Arch Tube looked more like Marrakesh today as a camel stopped by to launch a new holiday competition for Walkers Crisps.
Gary Lineker — the face of Walkers’ ad campaigns — snatched a quick selfie with the beast.
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