Train passengers were shell-shocked after discovering a live crab on a train – sitting in its own seat.

The commuter – who has been named Craig – was found on Wednesday evening on a South Western Railway service from London to Portsmouth.

Train driver Mark Walsh was approached by a passenger about the crustacean, and at first thought it was a joke until he saw the creature.

Mark says that Craig was quite poorly from the journey, but they dropped him off at a park with a pond in Southsea.

The driver speculated that the crab might have escaped from a fisherman’s box or had been placed as a prank by schoolchildren. Great Western Railway posted about the incident on Facebook, writing: ‘Unusual customer alert. On a recent SWR journey, one of our drivers, Mark, was approached by a polite cus

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