Another wrong train story comes from Barry Cumberlidge, and his time as a booking clerk at Leominster.

“One morning I was confronted by a very smartly dressed lady who had alighted from a northbound train. She had a very thick foreign accent, which I suspect was the cause of her problem. “She had asked at Paddington for a return to Lympstone on the Exmouth branch, where her son was due to pass out as a Royal Marine that afternoon, at the local training camp. “Presumably, the booking clerk had misheard her and sold her a ticket to Leominster, and other helpful staff had unwittingly helped her on her way. “I redirected her with an explanatory note asking colleagues to assist her, but I doubt she was able to share her son’s big day!”