Re: SLEEPING ON TRAINS (was re gunzel)

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

"Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote:

>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!)

Ha... looxury.

I woke up a bloke on the 12 midnight Circular Quay to Manly Jetcat
recently, as we arrived t Manly.  He said he had boarded the 8.20 p.m.
That's 4 round trips and half of the 5th.

Geoff Lambert

>Rgds
>Ron BEST
>Derick Wuen <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in message
>37404071.0@iridium.webone.com.au">news:37404071.0@iridium.webone.com.au...
>>
>> David Proctor wrote in message <7h9dsd$29c$2@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
>>
>> >
>> >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".
>>
>>