SLEEPING ON TRAINS (was re gunzel)

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

Heard about a bloke who woke up to find his train passing through his
station but GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION! (i.e. slept all the way to the
terminus and back!)
Rgds
Ron BEST
Derick Wuen <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in message
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> David Proctor wrote in message <7h9dsd$29c$2@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
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> >
> >Seriously though, there have been times when I have used the 12.09am
> Lithgow
> >as a place to crash - not by choice though.
> >
> >Thursday nights going home from football training, there have been
> occasions
> >when I have dozed off and awoken to find myself somewhere like
Glenbrook -
> >faced with an alternative of alighting and waiting for about 3 hours for
> the
> >early am Springwood train, I stay on and go to Lithgow, then get off at
> >Penrith on its return trip.
> >
> >DaveP
> >
> And I don't rate the times I have woken up in Oatley car sheds as genuine
> rail-enthusiast experiences, either.
>
> A pal of mine, who was similarly disposed to nod off on the journey home
> after fulsome activity in the city regularly used to wake up in Hornsby
car
> sheds. He had it down to a routine and thought he knew the way from the
> sheds to the Hornsby cab rank, so he didn't have to think about it too
much.
> One night he went into his oh no here we go again routine and was walking
> along the tracks. For the sake of the story it was probably drizzling
> lightly as well. He walked and walked. He thought "Hornsby station is
> further from the sheds than I remember". Finally he saw the lights on the
> platform, onto which he struggled. The station sign read "Asquith".
>
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