LONDON — A train driver was forced to sprint 100 yards (metres) along the station platform to catch his train after it decided to start its journey without him, Reuters reports.
“The ticket-collector climbed on and seconds later the train started moving. When I looked out the window I noticed the driver still on the platform. He ran as fast as he could past my window, then jumped on the train and stopped it,” passenger Ann Sutton told the Daily Telegraph.
The driver had been chatting to railway workers on the platform before the unscheduled departure of the local commuter service in south Wales between Rhymney station and Cardiff.
Rail bosses have begun an investigation over the incident.
“If the driver hadn’t been so quick, the train would have stopped automatically after about another 50 yards,” operator Valley Lines told the paper.