Have you ever had a crush on someone you met on a train?

[Deano23]

Just reading the metro and it seems quite common for people to be attracted to people they meet on trains so was just wondering has it ever happened to you?

 

[AlterEgo]

I wouldn’t believe those tidbits in the Metro are all genuine. I expect most of them are made up by the editorial staff.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I met my wife on a train.



Enough said!

 

[RPM]

I had a crush on someone I met on a railway station, if that counts. We were staff rather than passengers, and that was the best part of 20 years ago. She's now my wife.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

I commuted the length and breadth of London by train/tube whilst courting a young woman who has since been my wife of many years. Does this count?

 

[tsr]

I wouldn’t believe those tidbits in the Metro are all genuine. I expect most of them are made up by the editorial staff.

At least some are genuine.

(Colleagues have been featured...)

 

[MotCO]

I met my wife on a train.



Enough said!

I met my wife on the train - after we were married

 

[randyrippley]

I dunno about getting a crush on..........but its common to get crushed by other passengers on trains from Manchester to Preston

 

[Lucan]

it seems quite common for people to be attracted to people they meet on trains so was just wondering has it ever happened to you?

All the time. Who doesn't find this? I mean I am attracted to them, but I would not like to say that they are attracted to me - I have no idea and there is never any sign of it

"Sighting" not "meeting" though as the latter sounds like something pre-arranged, although the word "meeting" seems to mean different things to different people in the romantic context - anything from seeing in the distance, through being in the same room, through talking, through dating, right up to the same meaning as in "Adam knew Eve".

 

[Warwick]

I met my late wife on a train.

 

[LowLevel]

What a strange question. Of course. I am a guard. I see hundreds of thousands of different people on trains. I think some of them are attractive. Professionalism prevents me from doing any more than thinking that from my end.

It even works the other way judging by the fact I've had people offer me their number, grope me, smack my backside and offer me far more terrifying things than even their phone number (because I'm a lad so obviously a female on a hen do grabbing my crotch is just a laugh whether I like it or not, whereas if I was to do it to them I would be sacked and jailed).

 

[Kneedown]

Not on a train as such, but met Mrs Kneedown in our messroom at Notts. After many chats, followed by platonic dates romance did it's thing. 14 years later all is still blissful!

 

[syorksdeano]

I met my ex on a train but things didn't work out. In fact at times I wish she was under it

 

[Neil Polo]

I fancied a station mistress. Also a barmaid at my local who looked like her. On tne train from Plymouth to Gunnislake I was essentially seduced by a Devon girl.

 

[Mintona]

Another one in the ‘met my wife on a train’ club.

 

[PeterC]

Visiting the universities on my UCCA form (that dates it) involved a three leg trip with an overnight stay at my cousin's in South Wales. On the train from Manchester to Pontypool Road I met a young lady who was returning home to Llanelli after visiting Manchester University. Forum rules force me to stop there.

 

[MCSHF007]

Crush? Lots of times. Anything 'further than that'? Never.

 

[sjoh]

I met my ex on a train but things didn't work out. In fact at times I wish she was under it

mate, really?
not really even worth the reply. i get you're trying to joke, but it really isn't funny.

 

[Antman]

Years ago when I was single I got chatting to a lovely young lady on my train home one evening and got her phone number, unfortunately being a tad intoxicated I managed to lose the bit of paper I had jotted it down on, this was pre mobile phone era.

I often wonder what might have been!

 

[stuart100100]

I met my boyfriend on a Merseyrail train

 

[PaxVobiscum]

I suspect for some people who frequent these forums, it is more likely that they will be attracted to the train.

 

[700007]

I suspect for some people who frequent these forums, it is more likely that they will be attracted to the train.

Don't tell anyone but I quite like 707007. Something about her that just looks very elegant and appealing to the eye. Shame we never really cross paths except the odd time I pass through Clapham Junction on an odd London Victoria working.

 

[bussnapperwm]

I saw this lass once when LM were slowly withdrawing 150s off the snow hill lines who I had a bit of a crush on at school, but had lost contact for a couple of years.

Seeing her rekindled those feelings, but it turned out she was dating someone else.

We ended up blocking each other on Facebook after having an argument about something stupid.

 

[DarloRich]

I had a crush on someone on the train fairly recently, but the train was really busy and there wasn't much space so it wasn't really my fault!

I wouldn’t believe those tidbits in the Metro are all genuine. I expect most of them are made up by the editorial staff.

Cynic

I suspect for some people who frequent these forums, it is more likely that they will be attracted to the train.

we have a winner!

 

[Dr Hoo]

Just reading the metro and it seems quite common for people to be attracted to people they meet on trains so was just wondering has it ever happened to you?

Surely the point is that whilst work/college/village/pub/whatever tends to present a relatively stable and finite number of people to get to know, public transport brings one into contact with, er, the wider public and hence an almost infinite potential to make new acquaintances. This can develop into business and hobby interests as well as a potentially romantic ones.

Travel broadens the mind.

 

[theironroad]

I wouldn’t believe those tidbits in the Metro are all genuine. I expect most of them are made up by the editorial staff.

You're a bundle of joy.....

'rush hour crush' and 'good deed feed' are the highlights of a metro read.

 

[Domh245]

'rush hour crush' and 'good deed feed' are the highlights of a metro read.

I don't know, finishing it and putting it down (or otherwise having to stop reading it) was always a bit of a highlight

 

[tsr]

I don't know, finishing it and putting it down (or otherwise having to stop reading it) was always a bit of a highlight

There was a time when I would pick up a Metro solely because the delivery driver was the only other person stirring in the whole town, and I felt the need to say “good morning” to somebody after waking up at stupid o’clock! Often I then never read it on the train to work or anywhere else for that matter!

The “First Metro [of the day] ” club is an interesting bunch... mostly comprised of railway, construction and essential services workers. And the odd financial guru. Rush-hour crushes are but a dream!

(Mostly drive to work now... so reading the Metro isn’t a good move really...)

 

[theblackwatch]

Can we keep it clean please folks!

 

[Dougal2345]

If you want to see on-train flirting at its impossible best, take a look at Agnetha Fältskog's sultry glances on her morning Tumba-Stockholm commute...