The funniest or most unusual thing you have ever seen or experienced on the railway?

[Whistler40145]

Was on a 37 hauled Cardiff Central to Liverpool Lime Street service, somewhere around Runcorn workmen were pruning trees down an embankment, one of them was happily making a call of nature and nearly fell down the banking when the driver blew the horn.

 

[Paul Jones 88]

See a small woman walking up the stairs at Tonbridge with a toddler in one arm and a massive toy giraffe in the other.

 

[telstarbox]

At Waterloo East I've occasionally seen people with giant teddy bears. Working backwards I think they are prizes from Thorpe Park via Waterloo.

 

[Cowley]

At a diesel gala on the West Somerset behind D1010 and the driver honked his horn coming up to a foot crossing, the chap who was in his garden next to the railway, who I’d just noticed, jumped up in the air in shock and angrily shook his fist at the driver.

 

[Seans like NSE]

once when i was on thameslink, in the MIDDLE OF THE TRAIN a child was pooping in a potty a few seats away, I hated that

 

[Whistler40145]

once when i was on thameslink, in the MIDDLE OF THE TRAIN a child was pooping in a potty a few seats away, I hated that

That's disgusting

 

[43096]

At a diesel gala on the West Somerset behind D1010 and the driver honked his horn coming up to a foot crossing, the chap who was in his garden next to the railway, who I’d just noticed, jumped up in the air in shock and angrily shook his fist at the driver.

I was on the platform at Geneva with some friends and there was some random normal there as well. Pan dropped on the Re4/4II we were stood next to and the random normal must have jumped about 5ft in the air as the air blast breaker went. Suffice to say, we found it very funny.

 

[BCh]

Back in 2015 I travelled from Sarajevo to Zagreb and before we entered the EU everybody started with smoking cigarettes. The reason was that they were allowed to smoke onboard a train in Bosnia but not in Croatia.

 

[Romsey]

Commuting could be a bit of a trial at times, particularly when there were a number of "sharp suited" business types on the train.
The trip home on the 1705 Waterloo - Weymouth was OK apart from one customer continuing his business conversations on his mobile. First reaction after a few minutes - sod it, he battery hasn't run out.
In true commuter fashion he got a few stares and muttered comments but kept braying away. Plug MP3 headphones in and try to ignore him....
Somewhere after Battledown, we slowed down and then a few minutes later stopped. In a cutting.
Matey kept going for a minute or so and then realised that he wasn't getting any response from the other end of the call.
The poor guard who was doing tickets got the full " I need to make this call NOW, it's very important" story. Luckily the guard was a Bournemouth guard who gave the impression that he was more at home in the countryside than on a commuter train. " Well sir, we're stopped in a cutting and from what I remember from school many years ago, radio waves don't pass through rock or chalk. We should be underway in a minute or two when we are talked past a failed signal." In the quiet somewhere down the coach a lone voice started singing, "silence is golden....."

 

[Romsey]

Not so much funny as embarrasing ...
Ladies of an age old profession who used to catch the the Sunday morning paper train back from Waterloo back to Southampton and sometimes were still looking for "trade".

 

[306024]

At Waterloo East I've occasionally seen people with giant teddy bears. Working backwards I think they are prizes from Thorpe Park via Waterloo.

We were working at Clacton Air Show many years ago and won a giant pink teddy bear on one of the stalls. Put him / her on the barrier at Clacton to check tickets when the passengers returned, the kids loved it.

 

[telstarbox]

Commuting could be a bit of a trial at times, particularly when there were a number of "sharp suited" business types on the train.
The trip home on the 1705 Waterloo - Weymouth was OK apart from one customer continuing his business conversations on his mobile. First reaction after a few minutes - sod it, he battery hasn't run out.
In true commuter fashion he got a few stares and muttered comments but kept braying away. Plug MP3 headphones in and try to ignore him....
Somewhere after Battledown, we slowed down and then a few minutes later stopped. In a cutting.
Matey kept going for a minute or so and then realised that he wasn't getting any response from the other end of the call.
The poor guard who was doing tickets got the full " I need to make this call NOW, it's very important" story. Luckily the guard was a Bournemouth guard who gave the impression that he was more at home in the countryside than on a commuter train. " Well sir, we're stopped in a cutting and from what I remember from school many years ago, radio waves don't pass through rock or chalk. We should be underway in a minute or two when we are talked past a failed signal." In the quiet somewhere down the coach a lone voice started singing, "silence is golden....."

Similarly late services out of Charing Cross can be a bit lively when people hit the pubs at the end of the working week. Two women I think from a law firm were discussing a mutual colleague rather indiscreetly. Then a random man told them he was shocked at their conversation. Then another man across the aisle told him to mind his business and shut the **** up! Fortunately the whole carriage didn't come to blows...

 

[CaptainHaddock]

Not one I witnessed personally but the chap who tried to take his horse on the train at Wrexham General back in 2011 must take some beating.

Man tries to board train with pony in Wrexham

A man is captured on CCTV trying to board a train with a pony - and then when turned away tried to buy tickets for himself and the animal.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[221101 Voyager]

See a small woman walking up the stairs at Tonbridge with a toddler in one arm and a massive toy giraffe in the other.

At Waterloo East I've occasionally seen people with giant teddy bears. Working backwards I think they are prizes from Thorpe Park via Waterloo.

At a diesel gala on the West Somerset behind D1010 and the driver honked his horn coming up to a foot crossing, the chap who was in his garden next to the railway, who I’d just noticed, jumped up in the air in shock and angrily shook his fist at the driver.

That is great!

In the quiet somewhere down the coach a lone voice started singing, "silence is golden....."

Haha, it certianly is!

Not one I witnessed personally but the chap who tried to take his horse on the train at Wrexham General back in 2011 must take some beating.

Man tries to board train with pony in Wrexham

A man is captured on CCTV trying to board a train with a pony - and then when turned away tried to buy tickets for himself and the animal.

www.bbc.co.uk

Crikey! Just when I thought I'd heard all the madness, something else always top it!

 

[goo_trains]

Taking the irritating phone call stories to another level, I once sat opposite a man who was taking two phone calls at once on separate iPhones on a train in Holland.