I caught a terminating train

23/2/07
I should've known something was going to happen with the trains on my first day of uni! Well, it was my orientation day. This is probably the second time I caught a train by myself and never up north. I raced down to platform 4 thinking I was late. A train was standing there. On the electric sign it said "Terminates" but I had no idea what that meant, so I walked right on the train (not realizing that a few moments earlier the guard had cleared everyone out).
No one was on the train of course and I wondered why. But then I thought "Well probably no one's going up to ourimbah this early in the morning" (not thinking that actually this train is almost all stops to newcastle as well...but that's off the point).

The doors closed and the train slowly moved out of the station. "I hope I'm on the right train. God please let this be the right train!"
Well the train stopped just outside the station. I was like oh no. Finally I got up and saw a man walking down the tracks. When he saw me he motioned for me to come out.
"ahh you snuk on did ya? The guard missed you?"
slightly confused...
"This train terminates here."
"Ohhh..."
So it turned out I had to sit there 20 minutes before it made its way back to Hornsby station. Then the guard said, "follow me." So I did, and embarrassment out of embarrassments, he started taking me on a tour of hornsby station telling me which platforms were which; which trains go which way. And there were people everywhere!