To wonder why someone felt the need to take DSs course work.

[bruffin]

DS is year 10 and taking a photography btec. He left his course work on the train, but realised straight away and spoke to the ticket office at the station. They very kindly rang ahead to Liverpool Street and someone searched the train when it arrived, but they found nothing.
I have also contacted the lost and found at Liverpool Street just in case someone picked it to hand it in, but they haven't seen it.

The course work is in a black A3 spiral bound sketch book which are £15 each so not cheap. Thankfully it is only the beginning of the course and he has only 3 pieces of work. One of which he can just print out, there is a page of photos he has taken, so these just need to be printed again and there is a handwritten 3rd page.

I don't get the mentality of anyone taking something that is clearly someone's hard work?

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Maybe the person who picked it up hasn't managed to hand it in yet?

[roomonthebroom]

Sorry, I think YABU. He left it on a train, someone took it, it is shit, but he is ultimately responsible for his own work. Some people will take anything that isn't nailed down, this is surely not a surprise to you.

Make him pay for a new book himself, then he might be a bit more careful in future.

[bruffin]

It was on monday and I rang the lost and found yesterday, I would have thought it would have been handed in by now, if that was the case.
He is doing this class after school so he was not on the train with any of his friends, who might have noticed it and picked it up either.

[MackerelOfFact]

YANBU, but the litter collectors are pretty swift in emptying the trains at Liverpool Street once they've pulled in, not that they'd have taken it, but they might just have seen it as an oversized notebook and binned it.

I would also try calling the ticket offices at any intermittent stations (including the one DS got off at) as someone might have handed it in at one of those.

I've never had any luck finding things I've lost/had stolen on trains though - this includes a mobile phones, two rucksacks on seperate occasions (one containing a tent and full camping equipment for a festival - including tickets!), iPod, CDs. I'm just very careful now.

[bruffin]

In his defence he had been doing his DofE practise hike over the weekend and still was shattered. He was also loaded up carrying a tent, his course work and his normal school books.

[gingeroots]

ooh Bruffin ,poor lad !
( yes I know ,too soft emoticon ,it'll be the making of him ! )