nick
December 8th, 2009, 04:57 AM
An urban fox stunned London Underground passengers by calmly taking an escalator to navigate a tube station.
The animal was spotted by Kate Arkless Gray, 29, on Saturday night as she made her way home from a friend's wedding.
She watched in amazement as the fox boarded the escalator at Walthamstow Central just after midnight to leave the station.
Miss Arkless said: "As I got off the train and headed towards the up escalator I saw this daring creature dashing full speed down the down escalator, which was taped off for maintenance workers at the bottom.
"I was wishing I'd been able to film it and then the workers at the bottom of the escalator shooed him back up again."
She then managed to capture the surreal scene as the fox casually made his ascent on the escalator back towards the exit.
She said: "He just paused near the top for a moment, so I scrabbled around my bag and took a couple of pictures. I'm always looking for fun images to share on Twitter.
Full story, with a photo of the fox on the escalator, here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6750866/Fox-takes-tube-station-escalator.html)
The animal was spotted by Kate Arkless Gray, 29, on Saturday night as she made her way home from a friend's wedding.
She watched in amazement as the fox boarded the escalator at Walthamstow Central just after midnight to leave the station.
Miss Arkless said: "As I got off the train and headed towards the up escalator I saw this daring creature dashing full speed down the down escalator, which was taped off for maintenance workers at the bottom.
"I was wishing I'd been able to film it and then the workers at the bottom of the escalator shooed him back up again."
She then managed to capture the surreal scene as the fox casually made his ascent on the escalator back towards the exit.
She said: "He just paused near the top for a moment, so I scrabbled around my bag and took a couple of pictures. I'm always looking for fun images to share on Twitter.
Full story, with a photo of the fox on the escalator, here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6750866/Fox-takes-tube-station-escalator.html)