Date: 07/11/2011

Rail passengers are used to delays caused by the wrong type of snow or falling leaves. But yesterday the excuse was much wilder: lions on the line. Services to and from Shepley in West Yorkshire were halted after police received two reports from members of the public of 'a lion and/or a cub' in the area.

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Lion on the line: Passengers are locked on train for two hours after sighting of big cat... in YORKSHIRE

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Helicopters were scrambled to search the area around the village of Shepley near Huddersfield at around 3.30pm following a call from a woman.

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The office/shop once used by coal merchant John Lyon in Glasgow Road, Paisley, (just round the corner from the former Paisley East yard) photographed in December 2008 complete with classical Lion couchant (one of a pair) still in place above the shop front. The second member of the pair [see image 21161], stood in the John Lyon coal yard alongside Hawkhead station, some 44 years earlier.
Location: Paisley East
Company: Paisley and Barrhead District Railway
25/12/2008 Colin Miller

One of a number of variations on the BR Lion & Wheel photographed in 1959. The descriptive terms 'Emblem', 'Crest' and 'Insignia' tended to be used at that time, pre-dating the more modern marketeer's catch-all 'Logo'.
Location: Plates, signs, notices etc
Company: British Rail
//1959 A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

Lion in action at the Dinting Railway Centre in May 1982. 46115 can be seen in the background.
Location: Dinting
Company: Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
/05/1982 Peter Todd