My mate Pete was working for British Rail back in the early 80's. His job as a freight guard was to man the guards van. One of his frequent runs was from our home town, to the border of England at Severn Junction. It took a good 12 hours, as the train had to pull off the main line to allow passenger trains through as they have priority. It's a long and boring day. Pete got off the train at Severn junction, and caught the next passenger train to Llanelli. Except he fell asleep, and woke up in Pembroke. There were no trains immediately back to home, so he had to wait. He got back into Llanelli just in time to start his next shift. He was going to Severn junction again.More than a thousand furious rail passengers stormed a station office after they noticed the train they were on had gone 980km in the WRONG direction.
As the packed service pulled into the Indian city of Warangal people on board went berserk as they realised they were five hours away from where they should have been and no staff on board had noticed.
The train departed the southern town of Tirupati heading for the eastern city of Bhubaneswar.
It was when it arrived at an interchange at Vijayawada it went wrong, as it was due to swing north to its eventual destination of Varanasi, one of India's holiest cities.
India's signalling system is run on codes but instead of entering the three-letters for its next intended stop Bhubaneswar (BBS) staff put in the code for Bilaspur (BSP) sending the train in completely the wrong direction.
Experts were amazed the service did not crash as it went for 600 miles on the completely wrong track.
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Train pain.
Train pain.
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