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The train driver saw Poppy hiding in a hedge at the side of the railway trackA freight train driver, who rescued a lost dog he spotted near the railway line, has reunited the animal with her owners.Owners Dawn and Ian Bain said they spent all night searching for her.
The following morning, train driver Michael Jones saw Poppy hiding in a hedge beside the track and was able to get out and collect her.Mr Jones said it was about 08:20 when he saw Poppy near the Langham Junction crossing - more than a mile from Northgate in Oakham, where she went missing."All of a sudden there was just this tiny little face just looking back at me," he said.
He said he stopped the train and "without thinking I jumped out the cab and rushed back as quick as I could to see if I could find this little dog and there she was just looking so very sad and lonely.Image source,Mr Jones carried Poppy back to his train where she rode in the cab with him for about 20 minutes.At about the same time Mrs Bain, 60, went to the level crossing in Oakham to ask the person in the signal box to look out for Poppy.
She was told a dog had just been found and after making a phone call the signaller broke the good news."My heart - it didn't know whether to sing or stop," she said. Mrs Bain was told to make her way to Oakham station, where Mr Jones had been granted special permission to stop to return the dog to her."In comes this train with this beautiful man on, with Poppy sat on his knee," she said.Poppy is recovering from the ordeal at home with her companion Tinker"She's just got a bloodshot eye but apart from that she's absolutely fine.Mr Jones said: "I genuinely believe if I hadn't had spotted her, she would never have been found.
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