My engagement ring is found on train... after 300 seats pulled out
WHEN Lucy Holbrook dropped her engagement ring on her train trip into work, she searched the carriage in panic.
The white gold band with a triple gemstone setting appeared lost for good after it slipped from her lap, where she had put it as she moisturised her hands.
Little did she know the ring had dropped through a radiator grille to fall deep inside a heater. But after three weeks, a Facebook appeal and a search operation by rail operator c2c staff, her precious engagement ring has now been returned.
It was found by a team of cleaners who tore out nearly 300 seats and all the radiators from the carriages.
Miss Holbrook, 37, of Leigh-on-sea, Essex, said: “I felt physically sick when I realised. My heart fell out of my mouth.
“Everyone on the carriage was helping me look for the ring.
“I asked the people behind to check under their seats and I was double-checking everything, from my bag to my shoes.”
The mother of one, who is due to marry fiance Gordon Shepherd next May, added: “Everyone was so helpful.”
Chris Atkinson, of c2c, said: “We left no seat unturned as we stripped the carriages out in this search.
“We are delighted that we managed to find the ring and could reunite such a treasured possession with its owner.”