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Letter: Pioneer pigeons

Published 21 October 1995

From Peter Bateman

Eric Simms records in The Street Ltfe of the London Pigeon that in 1965 he observed a pigeon boarding his train at Kilburn, which is above ground, and travelling two stops to Finchley Road on the Bakerloo line, where it joined three others on the platform (Letters, 2 and 30 September).

It seems they have been fare-dodging for at least 30 years.

Issue no. 2000 published 21 October 1995

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