Thursday 4 October the 17:25 Limerick, via Portlaoise, from platform 3 in Heuston was delayed. The queue for this and the 17:50 train to Galway were, by 17:50, mixed up in each other. Eventually the queue started moving and when I got onto platform 3 there was no train there at all. It was now 18:00 and I realised everyone in front of me was getting on the train on platform 4. I naively assumed this to be the Limerick train I had been waiting for so got on board. It was after all the only one there, and I had been in the same queue for 40 minutes by now. I didn't realise it was in fact the Galway train I had boarded until I noticed it hadn't stopped in Kildare as I was expecting. There were no announcements made on board. I had to go to the buffet car and ask a staff member what train I was on.
Luckily I could persuade a kind soul to come and collect me in Portarlington.
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