How far have you travelled due to oversleeping?

[Bohemian]

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:

 

[W-on-Sea]

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[DaveNewcastle]

Any type of ticket bought for a certain journey has its own restrictions.

Much as I've been amused by some of the responses to your several recent new threads; I just wonder if these chatty comments on passengers' experiences might be better placed in the 'Other Forums > General Discussion' or 'Stories, Reports & Nostalgia' sections as these new threads of yours are not specifically concerned with any specific issues facing the industry at present. Perhaps you agree?

I know that this will inevitably appear to be a grumpy complaint from me, but I assure you that I ask with the kindest intentions for the integrity of the forum. I was prompted by the particuar question of this thread, which might be equally relevant in the 'Fares & Ticketing' section.

To return to your initial question, a business partner of mine would quite often find himself in Harwich train care depot. He wanted to be in Brussels (after some time on a ferry onto which he was too drunk to make a connection).
[Sorry if my comments appear rude or grumpy. I really have enjoyed some of the chat you've prompted!]

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I've never overslept myself, but I have heard stories that some years ago there was a regular passenger - a huge bloke - who often fell asleep en route from Waterloo to Ewell West; many regulars knew and would wake him up on approach to Ewell West, but I am sure he must have ended up in Dorking or Guildford on many occasions...

 

[yorkie]

Any type of ticket bought for a certain journey has its own restrictions.

Indeed, but I am not sure where restrictions come into this? I re-named the topic as it doesn't seem to be about ticket 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!”

Good question, the only time I can recall that happening is when I dozed off near Thornaby and then realised I had less than 1 minute to change platforms at Middlesbrough rather than a comfortable cross-platform change at Thornaby!

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:

Not sure what this has to do with falling asleep and missing your stop?

 

[Ivo]

I've never done this, but I did have an amusing thing at Gospel Oak on the last time I used an LO 150. A guy was sleeping one the train, and I pointed him out to the conductor. We roused the guy and he wanted to get at... I forget where. Either way, he fell asleep again before we set off!

 

[Techniquest]

Only occasion I can recall in the last few years would be sometime in the autumn of 2010, when I was heading home to Trowbridge. Travelling after an all-nighter, I ended up falling asleep and waking up at Hawkridge Junction, just north of Westbury. Thankfully wasn't long until the next train back, but it felt like hours due to tiredness.

So a whopping 4.04 miles overdoss. I've probably overslept before, and for longer, but I don't recall doing so at this time.

 

[b0b]

I know of somebody that was attempting to do a Euston to Watford Junction journey many years ago, and awoke in Rugby ... not sure if they had to spend the night in Rugby for their doziness or whether they ended up getting a lift home by mommy though!

 

[Aictos]

Or travelling to Peterborough from Stevenage and ending up at Berwick Upon Tweed as what happened to someone else I know.

 

[Failed Unit]

I know an unlucky person that feel asleep at York on the 1130 ex Edinburgh. It is a long way to London. Another friend always fell asleep after beer. Often visiting Cambridge rather than getting off at Enfield on the last train from London. He has had some nice waits at Cambridge for the first train of the day. I have heard of cleaners waking people up before the train hits the depot. Unfortunately I am not that good at sleeping on trains including sleepers!

 

[43167]

Once when on an all-line, was on the early Swansea-Paddington, planning to get off at Newport, woke up when the train was leaving, so ended up at Bristol Parkway.

Another time, wasnt over carried, but was on a slammer from Hastings-Brighton, woke up sometime after arrival to find the doors locked. Eventually found an unlocked door.

 

[At_traction]

Paris to Istanbul. There was a murder on the train too.

Wait... wrong story.

 

[Drsatan]

Paris to Istanbul. There was a murder on the train too.

Wait... wrong story.

We know. Just ask David Suchet

Once a schoolkid heading to school in Romsey got on at Southampton Central, fell asleep and woke up near Cardiff! I can't imagine what excuse he'd give to his teacher...

 

[Oracle]

A colleague had a few beers and got on the Central Line...he was going home and fell asleep. He was taken to West Ruislip and back to Epping where he broke up!

 

[DiscoStu]

Metz to Strasbourg.

Was bashing in Belgium and due to the lack of overnight possibilties, took the Brussels - Milan overnight with the intention of getting off at Metz for the 90 minute wait for the next train back to Brussels. I awoke just as we were leaving Metz ... bugger.

 

[Lampshade]

Luckily the only times I've fallen asleep on a train have been when I was travelling to the final destination anyway

 

[TomJ93]

I was on the Pretendo when the guard couldn't wake up a sleeping man and had to call the ambulance service, we were stopped for 20minutes at Tamworth!

 

[142094]

Never done it by going to sleep but jumped on a KGX train at Newcastle heading to Darlington only to realise it was the Inverness train and non-stop to York.

 

[yorkie]

Today I witnessed someone being denied exit from a train at an advertised stop on the basis that he was deemed to be a football fan supporting a team whose supporters were not allowed to alight at that station (ok, he was, but not all football fans live in their home town!). He was unable to make his intended interchange and was forced to travel several miles in the opposite direction to where he wanted to go. If he had alighted I'm not sure on what basis he could have been 'punished' but he didn't put it to the test. That's the first time I've seen someone physically prevented from leaving a train at their intended stop.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Today I witnessed someone being denied exit from a train at an advertised stop on the basis that he was deemed to be a football fan supporting a team whose supporters were not allowed to alight at that station (ok, he was, but not all football fans live in their home town!). He was unable to make his intended interchange and was forced to travel several miles in the opposite direction to where he wanted to go. If he had alighted I'm not sure on what basis he could have been 'punished' but he didn't put it to the test. That's the first time I've seen someone physically prevented from leaving a train at their intended stop.

Care to tell where?7

TBH, I don't really do sleep on trains, most of the time it is on railtours, I always find looking out of the window, or reading something railway-related occupies my trips.

 

[12CSVT]

Today I witnessed someone being denied exit from a train at an advertised stop on the basis that he was deemed to be a football fan supporting a team whose supporters were not allowed to alight at that station (ok, he was, but not all football fans live in their home town!). He was unable to make his intended interchange and was forced to travel several miles in the opposite direction to where he wanted to go. If he had alighted I'm not sure on what basis he could have been 'punished' but he didn't put it to the test. That's the first time I've seen someone physically prevented from leaving a train at their intended stop.

Is it legal to do this ?

The only basis I could think of where BTP or local police would be permitted to do this is if he either had previous convictions for hooliganism or if he had tried to alight from a footex.

Or maybe his ticket was for another station.

 

[33056]

A colleague of mine went on a day trip to France with some mates a few years ago.

It had been a long day, wine had been sampled and he got back just in time for the 2200 Euston to Holyhead which would take him straight to Milton Keynes. Making himself comfortable, he naturally dozed off - only to awake at Crewe, luckily with enough time to get off whilst the loco change was taking place.

Following a couple of hours in the waiting room, he caught the first sleeper up to Euston and had to go straight to work

 

[Matt Taylor]

After an all day organised depot tour around London I ended up in Golders Green with no moeny and had to walk the five miles back to Paddington, I then jumped on an HST to Swindon and woke up in leaving Newport

 

[Flamingo]

On the way into Reading on the late trains from London, a colleague used to announce "Please waken anybody around you, they probably need to get off here". Used to work as well, he said.
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Today I witnessed someone being denied exit from a train at an advertised stop on the basis that he was deemed to be a football fan supporting a team whose supporters were not allowed to alight at that station (ok, he was, but not all football fans live in their home town!). He was unable to make his intended interchange and was forced to travel several miles in the opposite direction to where he wanted to go. If he had alighted I'm not sure on what basis he could have been 'punished' but he didn't put it to the test. That's the first time I've seen someone physically prevented from leaving a train at their intended stop.

I know with Cardiff-Swansea games, that all the away fans have to travel in a controlled group to and from the game. I know a Swansea fan who lives in Cardiff (I won't name him as his house would be burnt down!) and he has to travel to Swansea to travel with the supporters back to the Swansea games in Cardiff, and travel back to Swansea after the game.

 

[deltic1989]

I remember reading in one of the Railway press that a TOC had strated giving passengers on long trips a card to attatch to thier clothes saying "Please wake me up at [insert station here]" in case they fell asleep, it made me laugh but i thought it was a really good idea. I'm not sure which TOC it was or wether the scheme is still going though.

 

[gordonthemoron]

1979, Hartlepool to Newcastle, fell asleep and wound up in Heaton Depot, woken by cleaners

some times in 1990:

St Pancras to Leicester, wound up in Nottingham

Kings Cross to Grantham, last train. Was supposed to be picked up by girlfriend. Slept though Grantham and also Newark. Got off train at Donny and after several phone call attempts, managed to get her to come from Nottingham to Donny to pick me up. Spent the time in McDonalds by the station. This was a particularly bad cockup as we had to fly to Alicante the following day

Not an oversleep on a train, but on christmas eve 1986, I got drunk in the RA club in Darlington at lunchtime, went home and fell asleep. Woke up just in time for the last train to York which fortunately connected into the last train to Scarborough otherwise I could have been in serious trouble with the wife.

 

[Oswyntail]

After a particularly heavy Christmas works lunch, a colleague (honest!) caught a train from Thameslink to Elstree, and promptly fell asleep. He woke with a start, just as the train arrived in St Albans. Nothing much, you may say - except it was now nearly midnight. He had been snoring away up and down the Thameslink line for getting on for nine hours.
Funnily enough, after the same do, another colleague woke up the next morning in Crown Point instead of one of those Essex towns.

 

[4SRKT]

As a young crank my parents put gradually decreasing limits on my movements. Until I was 13 I wasn't allowed south of Doncaster, but on a Leeds > London HST I fell asleep and woke up just before we sailed through Retford. Next stop was Peterborough, from where I rang my parents, who I'm pretty sure didn't believe my story and rather suspected I was trying to cop 58s on the fly ash!

On the What was Your Best Day Bashing? thread I told the tale of being on my 4-day Four Compass Points trip in 1993 and falling asleep on a Norwich > Liverpool 158 whilst going from Lowestoft to Thurso. I was to change at Peterborough to head north to Dundee to stay with a friend, but woke up as the set was pulling out of Peterborough. Eventually bailed at Sheffield, but ended up half a day behind schedule and ending up on the 03:00 Stranraer > Larne boat to get back to my start/end point of Belfast, instead of the more civilised 19:00 the previous evening.

 

[gnolife]

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

 

[4SRKT]

More recently completely FAILED to sleep on the 21:15 Dublin > Holyhead boat, and then failed to sleep for more than 20 minutes during the five hour fester at Holyhead for the WAG train. This caused considerable disorientation that evening when I arrived home at 8 having not slept for about 38 hours.