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over a year ago
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Traveling from Bognor Regis (down on the south coast) to Burnley (in Lancashire), got to Preston and jumped on the Burnley train, it started heading the wrong way to Blackpool! Preston had swapped the platforms around for some reason and it took me 4 extra hours to get home! |
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Coming back from St Pancreas once, I assumed all the high speed Southeastern serves stopped at Ebbsfleet, where I was parked, so I just got on the first train.
Turns out they don't all stop there, and ended up in Ashford. According to the ticket inspector I was one of three people in that train who made the same mistake. |
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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago
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When I lived in Germany in the late 80s my work wanted me to go to a town on the German/Belgium border the office gave me tickets and a schedule of trains to catch. I questioned it at the time as it was via Munich but was told they had spoken to the train company and that they had said that that was the best and quickest way to get there. Turns out there were two stations with the same name one in Bavaria and one one the Belgium border about 600 miles away. |
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I've never got on the wrong tube (unless getting on the other direction train on the tube counts - one stop in the wrong direction, then back in the right direction).
I remember being invited to a house party when I was at Uni in Nottingham. I was told the bus I needed to be on and I double checked with the driver "I think this one stops near that pub". A couple of the passengers agreed and so I got on.
I got off the bus where they told me, but it was a different pub. Using my sense of direction, I eventually found the pub two hours later - I was on completely the wrong bus and it had taken me in completely the wrong direction. I was a bit fed up by that point and went home, and apologised to my friends on the Monday morning for not turning up! |
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I was 19 and a bit tipsy after a two week training course, got on the train at MK intending to get to Liverpool Street to then go to a party in Ipswich.
I was on the train chatting to a very handsome guy, blethered on, commenting that I thought Runcorn was up north as we went through. By the time I got to Liverpool it was too late to return. I guy at the ticket office hearing my dilemma and pissing himself laughing offered to put me up for the night and get me to the morning train.
I ended up having a great Friday night out in Liverpool, his mates all took the piss out of me and bought me beers all evening. I stayed at his parents in their spare bed and they cooked me breakfast and got me to the station to get a train from there to Ipswich.
It took about 5 hours with the worst hangover, a load of kids telling and feeling like I was going to chunder.
Ipswich gang were then told what happened as we went on another session and had a great weekend there. Piss taking ensued and I resolved never to be solo d*unk on a train again.
Never forgot that experience mind.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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About 20 years ago I once caught the wrong chopper off of the flight deck of a carrier, was due to end up back on shore instead ended up on a 2 way 'sight seeing' trip to another ship. Didn't live that one down for a while. |
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Got directed to the wrong train at London Euston incentive.
Should have been getting off at Milton Keynes Central. Instead. First stop Crewe. Took a good few hours to get back and only just made the last train of the night back from Birmingham to MK.
Was not a happy bunny. |
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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago
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"I have fallen asleep on a German train and woken up 9 stations too late. But I've not caught the wrong one. "
Have done a similar thing in Germany as well.
Also fell asleep on a train in China after a 12 hour flight and woke up many stops later....
Retracing the journey back to my intended destination was interesting in a country where I don’t speak or read the language....
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By (user no longer on site)
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When I lived in Stevenage, more than once I ended up in Cambridge.
My most epic train fail was the time I was catching a train to Milton Keynes from Euston. Realised before it left Euston I was on the wrong train but seconds after the doors had been locked. First stop Crewe. |
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"About 20 years ago I once caught the wrong chopper off of the flight deck of a carrier, was due to end up back on shore instead ended up on a 2 way 'sight seeing' trip to another ship. Didn't live that one down for a while. "
On Lusty as embarked forces, I was told I was moving to Mounts Bay, jumped on a landing craft and went over, only to be told 4 hours later I was on Lyme bay and was going off to the Middle East rather than staying in the Med with the rest of my unit! |
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Yep!
I went to Leeds a couple of months ago, double, triple checked that I had the right platform and time to go home again. I realised just after the stops were announced just as the train started off, so I ended up getting off at York, waited for around two hours for a friend who was coming through to York so he could lend me the money to get home. Long story short, I should've been home at 2pm that day, I got back to mine just after 6pm! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have you ever caught the wrong train/bus etc and how far did you travel before you knew?"
A few times. Ended up in Edinburgh with the kids one time. We just got off and had lunch and walked about the shops so worked out ok x |
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Running late for a train, we just managed to dive on the Frankfurt train, and promptly fell alseep. Got out in a small village and tried to ask where we got the train to Frankfurt. Very conversation ensued.
We had managed to go Frankfurt am Oder on the Polish border, 6 hours north of the "other" Frankfurt.
That was the first thing we leaned.
The second is really really really nothing opens on a Sunday in Germany, least then.
Third, Germans do have a sense of humour. He practically wet himself when he realised what we'd done. Fair play, he did eventually make us a drink and a sandwich while we whiled away 5 hours to the next train... |
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I remember a railway freind telling me a story about the sleeper train in the 1990s. On the way up from Euston the steward noticed a young professional lady and an oil rig worker getting on very well. He was serving them drinks. Before they got to the border the both of them went off hand in hand to the sleeping berths. The train got into Edinburgh and divided, one part of Aberdeen and the other for Fort William. The steward was on the Fort William portion. When the train got into Fort William the steward was greeted my a worried husband desperately looking for his young wife (this was before everyone had mobiles). He asked the man for a description of the man's wife. It was definitely the lady who had gone off back to the oil rig workers birth. How do you explain that to her husband? |
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