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Officials with England’s Network Rail confirmed service was briefly interrupted in East Yorkshire when an emu was spotted along the tracks. File Photo by Raul Martinez\/EPA<\/p>\n

Jan. 23 (UPI) — Officials with England’s Network Rail confirmed service was briefly interrupted in East Yorkshire when an emu was spotted along the tracks.<\/p>\n

A train driver traveling from Hull to Liverpool reported spotting<\/a> the large bird, native to Australia, by the tracks near the Oxmardyke level crossing, in the Gilberdyke area, about 8 a.m. Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

The emu was located by Network Rail personnel and safely removed from the area.<\/p>\n

“Normal service resumed at 10:14 a.m. but there were some changes to services and we’re sorry to anyone whose journey was affected,” Network Rail said in a statement provided to BBC News<\/a>. “Contact has been made with the owners, who confirmed the animal was missing from their field.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials with England’s Network Rail confirmed service was briefly interrupted in East Yorkshire when an emu was spotted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2851,14104,66882,90,56,54,55,17658,4407],"class_list":["post-388498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}