A GENIUS FOR LOSING TRAINS

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 54, 5 March 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

A GENIUS FOR LOSING TRAINS

A Shropshire soldier, who recently arrived home from China, has had a curious experience of railway travelling. Landing at Plymouth, he booked on Friday for Coalbrookdale, near Wellington (Salop)—a day's journey by rail. He arrived at New-street Station, Birmingham, all right, but missed the connection train there late in the evening, and found himself in the night mail on its arrival at Crewe, in the small hours of Saturday morning. The railAvay people sent him on to Nantwich, where he was shown into the train for Wellington, which was within a few miles of his home. Bufhe fell asleep, to be awakened at Shrewsbury. This mistake was also explained, and the railway people there again put him right; but the unfortunate soldier again dozed off, until once more he was aroused at Nantwich. Again he was set right, but he next found himself in Newstreet Station, at Birmingham, again, in the early morning of Sunday. Remaining at Birmingham, over Sunday, he resumed his journey on Monday morning, but once more took the wrong train, and later that day alighted at Bradford, in Yorkshire. From thero he was sent on to Stafford, and eventually reached Coalbrookdale on Tuesday morning.— 'Navai and Military Record.1