Scariest Experience in a Train Station..

[bAzTNM]

I haven't actually had one yet, thank Christ. Have any of you had? Tales of anti-social behaviour please. Not trains pulling in, even though that might shock some of you.

Thanks.

 

[CarterUSM]

Yeah, years ago somebody boarded my train at Breich station. What a fright I got!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

A 156 once turned up on a stopper at Cherry Tree RAILWAY STATION

 

[strange6]

Drunk Bolton fans trying to board a 142 after the match at Wigan Wallgate. An experience I wish to forget

 

[Captain Chaos]

Someone boarded a train I was working from Redhill-Reading at Wanborough once about two years ago. Scared the hell out of me that did. What scared me more was he wanted a ticket to Oxford too. Thought he was an apparition at first. Not seen anyone board the service there ever since.

 

[ainsworth74]

Never really had a scare at a station before. I do occasionally get a bit worried when their are young kids on the platform as a train either passes through or stops as the little ones tend not to stand behind the line and most parents don't seem to care. I very nearly grabbed this little boy back from the edge at Redcar Central as a 142 arrived, he was stood right on the edge, mum totally oblivious, but thankfully someone else grabbed him before I did. But I've never been properly scared on a station.

 

[yorksrob]

I once had a knife pulled on me in the Gents at the Weatherspoons in Leeds. He had the rambling demenour and clothing of an old acid casualty.

 

[Lampshade]

Once I turned up at Chapel-en-le-Frith station 40 minutes early. It was a cold November night, pitch black everywhere, no sign of life for miles around and then... rustling in the bushes behind platform 2 hock:

 

[MidnightFlyer]

A bloke on a FGW Turbostar between Reading and Wokingham last summer - I saw him take a bag of weed out of his pocket hock:

 

[Blue Pool Halt]

I was stood on the platform at Charlton Marshall Halt in the half light the other day and smelled the distinct aroma of coal smoke for a moment.

 

[466.networkers]

Where do I start ...

Drunks on the station, smoking, I remember one throwing a lighter from Platform 2 to Platform 1 at Sittingbourne one night, about midnight, before the last train to Sheerness departed, the lighter landed inbetween the 2 tracks, so the person who threw it jumped down onto the track, avoiding the 3rd rail, and picked up the lighter and threw it to the other person before avoiding the rails before climbing back onto the platform ...

I've also recently seen a chap roll a joint and smoke it on the train to Sheerness - he tried to disguise the smell with deodorant ... Nice try you chavvy inbred idiot - needless to say it didn't work...

Not unusual round here ....

 

[IanPooleTrains]

A bloke on a FGW Turbostar between Reading and Wokingham last summer - I saw him take a bag of weed out of his pocket hock:

FGW don't or never had Turbostars, they have Networker Turbos and Networker Turbo Expresses

 

[londonmidland]

Hmm... I wonder how a late night on a station in Greater London would be...

 

[AlexS]

Saw a toddler drop between the platform and a voyager at New Street once - luckily the train had just come to a stand and he wasn't hurt, being swiftly pulled back up again.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Hmm... I wonder how a late night on a station in Greater London would be...

Not to Great I would have thought......

 

[trentside]

I may have mentioned this before, but my 'scary' moment was at Wakefield Kirkgate a couple of years ago. I had arrived on a Nottingham - Leeds train on a Sunday, formed of 3 coaches, the one I was in being deserted. The platform was dimly lit and a jacket flapping up in the canopy was making an eerie sound, casting all sorts of weird shadows. There were various unsavory looking characters hanging round on the platform, just watching the few people getting off. I was just greatful that I didn't have to get off there.

Not exactly scary, just a bit spooky!

 

[W-on-Sea]

Can't say in many years of travelling by train and tube around London I've ever had anything approaching a scary experience at a station, as yet, touch wood. (Have never been to Wakefield Kirkgate, mind)

Not as desolate a location as Briech, etc, by any means but I recall one Saturday night, on the final train from Fenchurch Street (00:40), a fair bit of the carriage applauded when somebody got off the train at West Horndon. (To the uninitiated this is the only station on the main line that serves what is essentially a village rather than a town or urban area, and so is far less used)


But stations in Greater London...Depends which one, really. Some of the former Silverlink stations (especially on the Barking-Gospel Oak line) used to feel vaguely scary at night, but this was mostly because they were dark and deserted, rather than in the presence of dubious characters. Now, thanks to LOROL and Ken Livingstone, they are no longer dark (much better lighting; repainting to brighten them up too), nor deserted (ie they have staff as well as more passengers), and trains are more frequent.

I guess Clapham and Wandsworth Road could still be a bit hairy, being a bit out of the way and rather quiet... (still, they transfer to LOROL soon, too) Maryland, possibly, too. Cambridge Heath used to have a shocking reputation, but seems to have been cleaned up rather a lot of late. Elsewhere, at least in inner London, even a lot of the unstaffed stations are still be relatively busy at night. I honestly reckon you'd find more trouble in the quieter stations you might find in some areas of Birmingham or Manchester (not to say Glasgow...), or indeed in smaller towns where trains are less frequent and used by fewer people than in most parts of London...

 

[Masbroughlad]

Hundreds of drunk fans trying to board a 150 at Stockport. Banging on the side of the train and rocking it as it pulled in. Then shouting and hitting the insides of the coach.So glad police and dogs were around.

Mindless baffoons calling themselves football fans.

 

[WestCoast]

Now I haven't had any wildly scary experiences but there are a couple of things I can immediately think of.

The first was a few years ago at Moss Side Station, which is a very lightly used station. It was about 8pm on a very cold Winter's night and it was blowing a gale. I was waiting for the train but it was late and it got later and later. Now the station was deserted, I couldn't get a signal on my phone. It was very eerie indeed, thankfully the train eventually came. The rustling was giving me the creeps.

I echo the comments about Kirkgate - it didn't feel safe there in the middle of the day! A toxic combination of pacers, dereliction, lack of PIDs, various dodgy-looking characters, dark passageways and no staff!

The other incident was a fight on platform 1/2 in Preston on a Saturday night - this platform always gets a bit raucous while people wait for the lively service back towards Colne after a binge night out in Preston. Well, a fight erupted and I thought one guy would push the other on the tracks (in front of the approaching pacer) and it came extremely close to happening.

Local to me, there's been many on-train incidents on the Blackpool Branch Lines (mainly at weekends, particularly afternoons).

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I echo WestCoast above, Mill Hill and Cherry Tree, as well as stations out towards Pendle are not nice places to get abandoned on. They appear to become chav hubs after 2300...

 

[WestCoast]

I echo WestCoast above, Mill Hill and Cherry Tree, as well as stations out towards Pendle are not nice places to get abandoned on. They appear to become chav hubs after 2300...

I've seen chavs quite a few times (in the day) hanging around Mill Hill Station acting "hard":roll:. Up there with Wakefield Kirkgate on the AVOID list!

 

[Kernowfem]

Being flashed at whilst waiting for a friend to get off the the Lincoln train at Fiskerton station. I ran like hell back down the platform to the car. The signalman came out after witnessing it, but the man had legged it over the fence and down towards Rolleston.

Scary at the time, but after thinking about what i saw....i quite feel sorry for him.....

 

[TUC]

As a student, sleeping on the platform at Manchester Victoria because I'd missed the last train. I thought it would be fine. Instead I was scared out of my wits at every noise I heard. Never again!

 

[RichmondCommu]

A bloke on a FGW Turbostar between Reading and Wokingham last summer - I saw him take a bag of weed out of his pocket hock:

And that scared you? Good grief.

 

[scotsman]

In the four foot attaching a lamp to the rear of the set in Broomhill Station, a steam bag two coaches along exploded. Scared the living sh*t out of me...

 

[londonbridge]

Probably being called a 'f**king c u next tuesday' and threatened with physical violence for refusing to hand over my travelcard to a drunk as I left the station.

 

[umontu]

Personally I'm terrified of wasps, had to spend almost an hour at Berry Brow station in the middle of summer last year surrounded by them.

Very very scary for me. :cry: lol

 

[Hydro]

Me and a friend were mugged once at a station when we were younger. Not fun. I took a great deal of pleasure finding out one of the offenders was wearing an electronic tag and seeing him go down for 4 years.

 

[WestCoast]

Personally I'm terrified of wasps, had to spend almost an hour at Berry Brow station in the middle of summer last year surrounded by them.

Very very scary for me. :cry: lol

I hate wasps too - I used to get very panicky near them. Waiting at stations with them is bad. Although after I was stung by one, I was not as bothered.

 

[Zamracene749]

A while ago (early 90s) had a smackhead threaten me with a dirty needle demanding money on the concourse at Kings Cross.

Squared up to him and told him i'd take his syringe off him and stick it through his eyeballs (I was young and fit/stupid then). He backed off swearing then ran off but I was still fairly shaken up. This was around 11am(!)on a sunday..
Never seen anything as bad as that since fortunately.