How far have you travelled due to oversleeping?

[MCR247]

going from Stockport to Macc, fell asleep on a VT that stopped at Macc, Stoke and Euston. Woke up on the approach to Carlisle on an Edinburgh train. Got a lovely little fine for that too

I'm confused :? Sounds interesting!

 

[deltic1989]

I'm confused :? Sounds interesting!

I was also wondering how he managed that??

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Probably the Manchester - Euston diagram went back out to Edinburgh?

I would wonder why the train preparation crew at Euston didn't wake him, but if the service was running late or if there was disruption and the diagrams were being stepped up on the tight turnaround timings they use in such emergencies, it is feasible that the usual preparation methods were cancelled and the train boarded straight away for a quick departure.

 

[4SRKT]

Probably the Manchester - Euston diagram went back out to Edinburgh?

That's still as long as most people would sleep undisturbed in a comfortable bed. How anyone could stay asleep that long in a busy train is beyond me. Unless he'd been chugging handfuls of temazepam before the train set off that is.....

 

[route101]

Ive heard of people getting on the Barrhead trains instead of the East Kilbrides . Well i once bidded farewell to my friend on a Glasgow to Euston and managed to get trapped and had to pay full one way fare to Carlisle.

 

[At_traction]

How anyone could stay asleep that long in a busy train is beyond me.

Never been in multi-day sleep-deprived outdoors assignments (a.k.a. military maneuvers), I assume... After that, you'd sleep even amidst Trafalgar Sq. throng and din...

 

[Flamingo]

Never been in multi-day sleep-deprived outdoors assignments (a.k.a. military maneuvers), I assume... After that, you'd sleep even amidst Trafalgar Sq. throng and din...

However, they also make you learn how to stay awake when you have to

 

[talltim]

I've got off at too early a station through sleeping, coming out from London to Harpenden I fell asleep and woke up as the the train stopped at a station. Looked out out of the window I thought I saw an H and nden and jumped off, only to realise I was at Hendon.
I also caught the wrong train from Harpenden to St Albans to school, first stop KX TL. Managed to jump on a train straight back and and got to school in time for my exam, although once I had done it I realised I was in the wrong room!

 

[At_traction]

However, they also make you learn how to stay awake when you have to

But when you don't have to anymore, on the other hand, then... Sandman time.

 

[jon0844]

Perhaps some enterprising TOCs could employ rats to wake up people who would otherwise miss their stop?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1doR9zUtQ8

 

[ian959]

I remember one particular trip on the Caledonian Sleeper from Fort William. Whilst waiting for the sleeper at Crianlarich (a mere three hours or so wait) a bloke got off the train from Glasgow Queen Street. He had fallen asleep on the train and missed his stop. ****ed as a newt he asked what time the next train was back towards Glasgow. I told him so off he went to the pub near the railway station and returned two hours later even more ****ed. When the sleeper finally arrives he hops on to go back about two stations towards Glasgow. I woke up at Preston I think it was, had a stretch of the legs to the carriage door and there he was on the platform no doubt enquiring as to when the next train towards his destination would be...

 

[Track Basher]

Once two friends went to the pub after work on Friday and ended up on the last train from Preston to Leyland. This was in the days it was 31 and coaches. The came out of the pub last minute and the train was already in the platform so they get on, sit down and fall asleep. The had unfortunately not got on the last train to Manchester Vic but the holidaymaker train to Newquay and were woken by the station staff in Plymouth.

The then rang their roster clerk who swapped shift around and the came all the way back and went straight back to work

 

[Donny Dave]

Any type of ticket bought for a certain journey has its own restrictions. How far past the stated destination on your ticket have you managed to travel before err... waking up and saying, "this isn't my stop!” The reason I mention this is that on a particular trip to London, a guy at the ticket barrier could see no reason why he had to pay to travel by train.

:roll:

I've fallen asleep quite a few times on various trains, but I usually wake up in time, but not always ....

Coming home ofter various trips out, I've woken up to see the steelworks here in Scunthorpe disappearing out of view, which isn't good when your heading in from the Doncaster direction ....

Worst 1 though, was when I was heading home from Scotland after a holiday. I was supposed to change at York, but woke up to see Marshgate Junction, followed very quickly by Doncaster station flash past the windows. Normally not a problem, but the train was RA Kings Cross!

 

[4SRKT]

I remember one particular trip on the Caledonian Sleeper from Fort William. Whilst waiting for the sleeper at Crianlarich (a mere three hours or so wait) a bloke got off the train from Glasgow Queen Street. He had fallen asleep on the train and missed his stop. ****ed as a newt he asked what time the next train was back towards Glasgow. I told him so off he went to the pub near the railway station and returned two hours later even more ****ed. When the sleeper finally arrives he hops on to go back about two stations towards Glasgow. I woke up at Preston I think it was, had a stretch of the legs to the carriage door and there he was on the platform no doubt enquiring as to when the next train towards his destination would be...

Like it! Excellent story!

 

[OuterDistant]

A mate of mine once woke up just after the train left his stop (Stoke-on-Trent). Next station? Milton Keynes!

 

[bengley]

The only time I've done this was last week - ex Aylesbury train, need to get off at Chalfont to connect with a Chesham train, however I fell asleep and woke up at Chorleywood.

Missed my connection :C

 

[colpepper]

Not exactly a sleep over but it almost could have been. Travelling on the last service of the day to the midlands from St. P in 1979. Very quiet train I thought, nobody about. Checked the screens again. Definitely the right platform, Peak haulage, correct stock. We were rolling out a little early, most unusual. Five minutes later two cleaners appear.

"Where the **** are you going?"
"Nottingham.""
"This ain't going nowhere, man."
"But the screens...the platform.."
"Don't no nuffink about no screens."

We pulled into the carriage sidings and they told me I'd catch my train if I was quick but not to walk on the track. The days before health and safety. And proper station signage. I did catch it and had an up close and personal view of the throat of a major London terminus on foot. Bizarre.

 

[me123]

Ive heard of people getting on the Barrhead trains instead of the East Kilbrides . Well i once bidded farewell to my friend on a Glasgow to Euston and managed to get trapped and had to pay full one way fare to Carlisle.

I know someone once who got on the wrong train at Glasgow Central. No big deal, happens all the time. But this divot managed to mix up the Whifflet train (a 156) with the London train (a Pendolino). Words failed me.

 

[SteamontheMet]

A mate of mine was doing a stretch of the Chiltern Mainline from High Wycombe to London Marylebone, fell asleep in the Gerrard's Cross area and woke up at Aylesbury.

 

[185]

Piccadilly platform staff sent me to the Airport and back one night after a staff night out in Liverpool.

I was awoken at 4.30 being hit over the head with a plastic platform bat pushed through a 142 window

B*******!

 

[Waddon]

Best one I heard was a story told by my brother... he was travelling back from London to Purley, fell asleep and woke just as the train pulled into Coulsdon South, which is only a few miles further on, so he quickly leapt off... only to watch the train depart heading north towards Purley... he had slept all the way to the train's destination, and it was now returning, if he had stayed on he would have got straight to his destination, and now he had to walk...

And I once, a long time ago, fell asleep in Switzerland on an overnight international train, but my carriage got detached and shunted into a siding (well I couldn't read the sign that said the train split en route). Anyway got woken by a cleaner, and they sent a shunting loco out to pick me up and deposit me back on the platform... that was fun, riding on the open front platform of the shunter across some swiss station throat in the middle of the night...

 

[Captain Chaos]

Not really a case of overlseeping as such but more of getting the wrong train whilst drunk and then falling asleep. This happened about 7 years ago.

Went round a mates in Tilehurst for a few drinks with a couple of mates. After a while we started playing practical jokes on each other. We thought it would be funny to throw water and then flour over each other (don't ask). Anyway get to Reading station (covered in flour) and see a train parked in platform 4. Thinking it might be the late evening HST to Newbury (and having no actual idea what the time was) I jumped on board and fell asleep. When I awoke I managed to find myself pulling out of Port Talbot! Had to catch the first train back to Reading (think it was the 03:58 to Paddington) and had to pay for a very expensive ticket back home! So I got home at about 09:00 covered in flour and my wallet a lot lighter! To say I was embarassed is an understatement.

 

[SS4]

Not asleep as such but I was the proverbial thousand miles away en route from University to Erdington. At New St there was an announcement that due to delays the train would not call at any stations instead going direct to Four Oaks something which I only found out once the train didn't stop at Aston or Gravelly Hill so was on the train until Four Oaks

Thankfully it was the middle of the afternoon so I just stayed on the train back to Erdington and it didn't cost a penny since my NWM pass covered it

 

[quarella]

After my first night shift at Swindon I was travelling back to Weston-super-Mare on the Waterloo - Maesteg changing at Bristol Temple Meads. I remember leaving Bath. A hazy recollection of the cutting and bridge at St Annes... then I come round to "Filton Abbey Wood will be our next station stop". I dive off. Struggle to work out what I need to do to get home from there. Thank God it was only two platforms then and after changing at Temple Meads at the second attempt got home 2 hours later than planned.

 

[Deerfold]

I've only overidden whilst asleep twice - the first time I was living in Ripponden and travelling home from Bradfrod having had an after-work drink or two. I got the train around 2210, expecting to travel two stops in 19 minutes. I nodded off and then woke up to the sound of the dors opening. Sleepily wondered if it was Halifax or Sowerby Bridge. It was neither, nor was it Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden or Walsden. I'd gone under the Pennines to Littleborough at about 2255. Annoyingly, whilst there is now a train back there wasn't then. I then went to see if the buses were still running and saw the last one heading to Ripponden. I'd had enough to drink to not think phoning for a taxi from the station might be a good idea and it was before I had a mobile. I walked over the Pennines - first I lost street lighting then the pavement finished. Then it started bucketing it down in dense fog - I was wearing a suit but no coat. I had to walk along the line in the middle of the road to be able to tell where the road was as there was just moorland at the sides of the road. It took about 3 hours to do the 8 miles (rather slower than my normal pace). I used to stand for the journey after that.

My other overrun was less eventful - coming home from Kings X I had forgotten my cash card and had just enough left for a taxi home from Hitchin station. Unfortunately I went to Letchworth and couldn't afford a taxi from there. By the time I'd walked from Letchworth to Hitchin I thought I might as well carry on home so it saved me money in the end - just glad I wasn't on a train heading for Peterborough as Arlesey is rather further along.

 

[The Big Boo]

Edinburgh to Grantham- instead of getting off atr Doncaster.

Glasgow to Crewe- instead of bailing at Carlisle.

 

[HawkeyeTheNoo]

I did fall asleep on the Cathcart circle from Glasgow Central intending to get off at Mount Florida once and woke up back in Glasgow again!

 

[Toad]

V62, 1985, after a week in Scotland planned to get off at Birmingham NS, woke up at Cheltenham with 451xx on the front.

 

[The Big Boo]

V62, 1985, after a week in Scotland planned to get off at Birmingham NS, woke up at Cheltenham with 451xx on the front.

1985- bound to know each other then!

 

[Flamingo]

A TM I know was going to Cheltenham to take a train over, ended up in Birmingham. Had to travel from Brum to London to catch his back workings!