Missed stops

[patricks148]

After a seeing a topic on Random irritations about missing your stop.
Has this happened to you too and what's your biggest miss?

Back in the 80s I was getting a train back to Harpenden from St Pancras, it was a fair wait, so jumped on the fast train that was due to stop at Luton, alas I fell asleep and woke up pulling into Nottingham. Another one that used to happen all to regularly was coming back from the Mad hatters in Luton to Harpenden, one stop on the train, me and a mate ended up in Brighton more than once. On one occasion we were frog marched my a member of the British transport police to buy a ticket back as we only had a return ticked for one stop?

 

[IanM]

Missed the train stop in Guildford on the odd occasion and woke up in Pompey!

Can't think how!

 

[Maninblack4612]

I was going to Edinburgh quite late on a Sunday night for a Monday meeting. The train was pulling out of Newcastle when three girls rushed up to the guard. One of them asked "Was that Durham". The guard told her that the train didn't stop at Durham, the girls had wanted to get out at Newcastle. "Where does it stop next" one of them asked. "Berwick". Good luck finding one to travel back on.

 

[Billysboots]

Girl I once worked with was going on a one day course in London. Her husband dropped her off at Kettering railway station and she got on the train already waiting at the platform. He stood to wave her off, both of them expecting the train to go one way, and to their abject horror it went the other - she’d got on the wrong train, which was a non-stop to Leeds.

 

[AliMc]

One of my staff, when I worked in the PO, got the train in Edinburgh due to get off at Dalmeny for South Queensferry fell asleep and woke up in Aberdeen

 

[Wilson]

A mate of mine went to a gig in London, had a few beers and tried to get the train back to Bracknell… ended up in Reading, but was lucky enough there was a train going back the other way…. Woke up in Waterloo, slept somewhere for a few hours and then train home! He told the story on the Radio and won more gig tickets!

 

[need_my_wedge]

Was in Kyoto one time, going to catch a bullet train back to Kobe. Having done it many times, I was surprised when my wife insisted it was a different platform. We switched, got on the other train, as it pulled away, announcer says next stop Nagoya…. 100 miles in the opposite direction……

 

[Jimaroid]

I fell asleep on the Northern Line, was supposed to be going to Paddington for the last train home to Bath. Observant readers may note the Northern Line doesn’t go to Paddington. I was woken up by a guard in Edgware saying end of the line and I’d missed the last train. Expensive cab ride back to Paddington to sleep the night on a bench and get the first train at 6am. Fortunately I was so full of booze I didn’t care. ?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Was lucky enough to be at the bottom of the Northern and District lines so could never go further and the guard would always check the carriages especially late at night so always got a wake up call. Did end up at Effingham Junction once. That is a one horse own and no cash to get a cab anywhere near civilisation so no option but to kip outside the locked station until the first train to civilisation

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Someone you know Homer once got so rat-arsed at a Test Match at the Oval that he ended up in the sidings around Guildford (he lived two stops before Epsom) and spent the night asleep on the train before getting woken up by the driver at around 7am next morning.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Someone you know Homer once got so rat-arsed at a Test Match at the Oval that he ended up in the sidings around Guildford (he lived two stops before Epsom) and spent the night asleep on the train before getting woken up by the driver at around 7am next morning.

Wonder who that can be. We had a nurse supposedly going to London who managed to get on a train going completely the wrong way and ended up at Bristol Temple Meads before wondering why a 20 minute train seemed to take so long. She didn't get that mentioned much for the next few years. A good nurse but lacking in the common sense department

 

[IanM]

Does getting on the wrong ferry and ending up in Discovery Bay, rather than Kowloon count?

 

[drdel]

A long time ago as ac17 year old I had an interview at Manchester Uni. Very early train start from N Devon via Taunton. Return trip started at 18:30. Knackered and fell asleep until it stopped at Exeter at about 22:30. Had to jump the barriers to get out of station to avoid excess fare as short of money.

Had to walk the 34 miles home through the night as no car in family. A memory truly etched in the brain

 

[Orikoru]

One time when I was about 22, Friday night, I'd had four or five pints in quick succession after work with some work mates, got on the tube to head back to my local area to meet my regular mates for a drink. Fell asleep and went four stops past my stop, I woke up at the station, realised what I'd done and saw the other train pulling in on the opposite platform. So I sprung up, ran up the stairs, across to the other side, down the stairs, and just as I got to the bottom, wham, my ankle turned over 90 degrees. Made it on the train but it was hurting a fair bit. Still met my mates but I was limping around the pub like a cripple, and when it was still hurting several pints later I thought I'd better go home. Took my shoe off and my ankle was about twice it's normal size. Went to bed, woke up at 7am in absolute tears because I couldn't move it or put any weight on whatsoever. My dad took me to A&E, it was very badly sprained, and very very close to breaking it. Couldn't walk for a week and it was another 7 weeks before I played football again.

 

[backwoodsman]

Can't rival some of the above for distance but once got on a District line tube at Embankment heading for Wimbledon. Woke up at Cockfosters at the end of the Piccadilly line. Not only is Cockfosters in North London (whereas Wimbledon is South London) but its not on the District line. Moreover swapping from the District to the Piccadilly line one has (had?) to navigate escalators, tunnels, walkways etc to effect the change of line. Managed to get the last train back. Fell asleep again and missed the stop for the change thereby missing last train home. Had to get off at Barons Court and walk home (about 7 miles)

 

[Pathetic Shark]

Years before I knew her, my ex-wife was half-way down the M4 trying to get to Hounslow because she had seen a sign for "The West Country"

 

[Robster59]

Not a missed stop exactly, but a friend of mine knew a motorbike bobby in Liverpool years ago, and the bobby was sat on his bike in the middle of Liverpool and a car stopped beside him and a woman popped her head out of the window and said "Excuse me luv, is this Hull?" It turns out that she was from Leeds and had been told to get to Hull, you jump onto the M62 and just carry on to the end. It transpired that she had jumped onto the M62 alright, but then gone in totally the wrong direction, and paid no attention to the fact that none of the road signs pointed to Hull.

 

[greenone]

My brother was on the train south and was supposed to get off at Warrington, but was asleep and woke up as it pulled out of the station. No problem he thought I'll get off at Crewe except it was an express and didn't stop at Crewe or anywhere until it reached its destination Euston. ?

 

[Crazyface]

Took a wrong ferry across the Bosphorus to the other side to see the mosques. Ended up in Asia. Wandered around all day saw sod all completely lost and got a taxi back to the Hilton where the wife was waiting for me, I was very late, to go out for meal with work colleagues.

 

[HeftyHacker]

We were out in Lancaster a few years ago and a mate said he'd get the first train back to Preston at 5 30am. We woke to a text at about 10am saying he'd just got home, we were all asking how since its a 17min journey plus a 10min taxi back to his.

Turns out he'd fell asleep on the train from Lancaster to Preston and woken up in Warrington. He'd begged the guard to be let on the next train back north who duly obliged before falling asleep on that train as well and ending up in Oxenholme in the Lake District. So then had to pay to get another train back to Preston ??.