The train I caught down to Salisbury was made up of six carriages. The rear three terminated at Salisbury, the front three continued on to Gillingham.
This isn’t particularly rare, it happens all the time all over the UK
And what happened just outside Andover is also pretty familiar.
I was sitting in the middle of the front carriage and just after Andover the guard broadcast a reminder message that at Salisbury the train would be splitting.
About 2 minutes later at least three people walked down the carriage and tried to get through the locked door at the end, into the drivers cab.
They started to panic that they couldn’t get through, until someone told them this was the front carriage.
They asked if they were absolutely sure it was the front carriage as they wanted to go to Gillingham, and they took a fair amount of persuading that they were in fact well into the front, so far into the front three carriages that if they went any further they would no longer be in the train.
I know people want to be certain, but when the guard has mentioned that the train is six carriages long, and you’ve walked through four, basic maths must come into play?
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