I certainly wouldn't have dialed 999. 101 would be much more appropriate, whilst extremely inconvenient it doesn't require an immediate police response and the OP was perfectly safe. I recently had to dial 999 for something that required an immediate police response and it was very frustrating that it took 6 minutes to answer because all the operators were busy. I would hate to think this was because of people making non emergency calls. Again setting a fire alarm off as suggested elsewhere could potentially divert the fire service from a life saving call out.I'm sure this incident will have been a c**k up rather than anything more sinister. If I'd have been trapped I'd have:
1. Used a help point (if there was one); if not
2. Dialled 999 and requested assistance from the police and/or fire brigade
3. Attempted to have broken out of the station. A fire extinguisher is a good way of breaking the glass in a door or window
I would try other options before contacting emergency services. Looking on noticeboards for an emergency number, googling an emergency number (if you Google 'railway emergency number' you get a number for network rail) or phoning national rail enquiries.
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