{"id":552339,"date":"2026-04-26T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552339\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:35:10","slug":"the-strangest-animals-spotted-on-glasgows-railway-from-marmoset-monkey-to-wild-boar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552339\/","title":{"rendered":"The strangest animals spotted on Glasgow’s railway from marmoset monkey to wild boar"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been plenty of “unexpected furry visitors” to our tracks over the years.\"Cammy<\/p>\n

Cammy the Cambuslang marmoset(Image: ScotRail\/X)<\/p>\n

ScotRail has reminisced on some of the strangest animals that have been spotted on railway lines in and around Glasgow<\/a>. From a marmoset monkey in Cambuslang to a boar in Wishaw, there have been plenty of “unexpected furry visitors” to our tracks over the years.<\/p>\n

The Scottish rail service<\/a> shared its list of wild encounters on X this afternoon, saying: “Over the years, we’ve had our fair share of unexpected furry visitors that have made our shifts pass by that wee bit quicker!<\/p>\n

“Here are our top picks!”<\/p>\n

Marmoset monkey Cammy was once spotted perched on a banister at Cambuslang<\/a> station, tucking into a tin of peaches. A picture of the incident shared by ScotRail shows confused passengers gazing up at Cammy from the platform below.<\/p>\n

Also on the list of memorable animal encounters was Valentino the cow, who wandered onto the tracks after absconding from Pollok Country Park<\/a> in 2020. Valentino was caught on CCTV standing on the tracks at Pollokshaws West after his great escape.<\/p>\n

\"Valentino<\/p>\n

Valentino the Pollokshaws cow(Image: X\/ScotRail)<\/p>\n

A large wild boar was also once seen next to the tracks near Wishaw<\/a>, as ScotRail joked it “fancied a bit of trainspotting.”<\/p>\n

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And while an impressive array of animals have wondered onto Glasgow tracks, ScotRail also shared stories from further afield, recounting that a large stag was previously seen standing on a platform at Glenfinnan.<\/p>\n

The train service added that the stag was “happy to strike a few poses for Steven, one of our Station Maintenance colleagues.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been plenty of “unexpected furry visitors” to our tracks over the years. Cammy the Cambuslang marmoset(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[679,90,189893,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-552339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-glasgow","tag-science","tag-scotrail","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552339","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=552339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}