Hold That Train

[marval]

Three professors had walked down to the train station from the University.

They were so absorbed in their conversation that they didn't hear the train arrive, but they did notice the noise of the train as it started to depart.

After a desperate rush two of them manage to scramble on board.

The third looked sad and a passing railway official said,

“Don't feel bad, at least two out of three of you made it.”

“True,” sighed the professor, 'But the other two were only here to see me off!'

[mushroom25]

at crianlarich in the highlands, trains from fort william wait for their opposite number from oban, after which both are coupled and run together to Glasgow. this gives smokers on the fort William trains a good ten minutes to have a smoke on the platform.

on a summer saturday a year or 2 back, a fort william train arrived and the smokers piled off for a quick puff, knowing that the arriving oban train would alert them to rejoin the train. except that there was no oban train; on summer saturdays this particular pair of trains run separately an hour or 2 apart. thus 6 or 7 smokers were treated to the sight of their train (and their luggage) retreating up the line in the direction of glasgow.....

[marval]

Oh dear mushroom, I bet they were not best pleased.

[Psybbo]

That was no joke, Mushroom:-)
Marval, lol, typical academics

[mushroom25]

fortunately for them, they were able to call the signaller at banavie who radioed the train; their luggage was offloaded at dumbarton (the next staffed station) and they were re-united with it some hours later. after a few beers at the rod & reel, at least a few of them were able to see the funny side.

[starone]

lol. good one marvel.