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Help,urgent..train Penzance to Edinburgh

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Hedjwitch · 03/01/2026 17:57

Is anyone on, or have friends travelling on the 11.15 from Penzance to Edinburgh just now? My son has left his back pack on the train when he got off at Birmingham New Street. A black backpack containing all his stuff! Carriage F5. Can't get any answer on the phone at Lost Property and he has registered on line. Long shot but....please!

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Rowgtfc72 · 04/01/2026 10:16

My brother left his case on the train at King's Cross once. Went to the pub, didn't realise till he got home.
Reported it missing the next day, three days in didn't hold out much hope. On the fourth day he was contacted to say it had turned up and they could send it to him.
It had contained 2 laptops, gifts and expensive clothes and trainers.
Clearly someone had been through it.
All they'd taken was his rock and sugar dummies from Cleethorpes beach.
He's more careful these days.

Hope you're reunited with the bag soon.

Eyeshadow · 04/01/2026 10:09

BunnyLake · 04/01/2026 09:55

I’m an atheist but I pray to St Anthony, rarely lets me down 😁

Great to hear you can collect it. I always put my rucksack between my feet on trains so I don’t forget it!

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How can you be an atheist but believe in praying to St.Anthony 😂

You are much less of an atheist than you claim to be.

Eyeshadow · 04/01/2026 10:08

I really hope you get it back soon!!

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Hedjwitch · 04/01/2026 09:56

Just to clarify I am in Scotland,although not Edinburgh, but further North. DS will be home tonight so can make the trip to Edinburgh tomorrow, roads and weather permitting.
A pp asked what was in the bag. DS sent me a list of contents in case I had to identify it. I had a lump in my throat at item
" Wallet with photo of Grandma in".

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BunnyLake · 04/01/2026 09:55

Interpink · 03/01/2026 22:38

Never fails. Fact.

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I’m an atheist but I pray to St Anthony, rarely lets me down 😁

Great to hear you can collect it. I always put my rucksack between my feet on trains so I don’t forget it!

chipsandpeas · 04/01/2026 09:08

im not sure if you are in edinburgh or not but if not and need someone to pick up let me know, i will be going through Waverley Monday tues and thurs next week

Mossey55 · 04/01/2026 09:02

Hedjwitch · 03/01/2026 17:57

Is anyone on, or have friends travelling on the 11.15 from Penzance to Edinburgh just now? My son has left his back pack on the train when he got off at Birmingham New Street. A black backpack containing all his stuff! Carriage F5. Can't get any answer on the phone at Lost Property and he has registered on line. Long shot but....please!

Tweet (x) the train company with that info
if you had done so at the time one of the train crew could have gone and got it
or son could have contacted staff in Birmingham station and they could have messaged through to the train manager

i hope you get it back

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Hedjwitch · 04/01/2026 08:58

Thanks all. Looks like lost property is closed until tomorrow. If the tracker is still saying Edinburgh I think we can assume the bag is there. DS is now in Liverpool but will be back tonight.
Mumsnet can be such a helpful place,restores faith in humanity.

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MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 04/01/2026 08:52

Fingers crossed

CautiousLurker2 · 04/01/2026 08:49

Am watching this in the hope of a happy ending and to reaffirm my faith in human nature… really hoping you don’t have to drive/train it to Edinburgh to collect the backpack, though I know it may have to be done!

JennyWrenSeven · 04/01/2026 08:30

Finger’s crossed you’re reunited with your DS’s backpack tomorrow.

stonebrambleboy · 04/01/2026 07:33

Emptyandsad · 03/01/2026 23:26

Should be St Jude for lost things...

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St Jude is lost causes.
St Anthony is lost items.

Pipsquiggle · 04/01/2026 07:29

@Hedjwitch before you travel anywhere just make sure you know where the train line's central lost property office is and how they process it.

When my son left his football boot bag on the train in Maidenhead, the boot bag ended up at the GWR lost property office in Bristol - even though his train didn't go there.
They did have a very good system of logging it, locating it and sending it back - it did take a few days though. We did have to pay postage.

Icebreaker911 · 04/01/2026 07:21

That's a long train ride (phew!)...

Hope the bag is recovered & returned safely - good idea having a tracker inside (Hope it's a tracker & not his phone - thats an extra worry 😕)

Don't they have a train manager on long distance rides (Avanti!) Surely BR would contact the person in the first instance & they would take charge of the bag until the end of the journey - keep us updated on its safe return op 🙂

CremeCarmel · 04/01/2026 06:26

Hedjwitch · 03/01/2026 18:46

Finally got a human...a lovely lady at East Midlands who is going to get station staff at Sheffield to hop on and look for it and give it to train staff for safe keeping. ( take nore up helpful lady at Birmingham!). His tracker says its still on the train so fingers crossed nobody nicks it between times. I will murder DS when I get hold of him!!

Please don’t murder him. These things happen. It could happen to any of us, even the most diligent amongst us - including me (twice!).

BlackCoffeeAndSugar · 04/01/2026 06:09

Very invested

FFSToEverythingSince2020 · 04/01/2026 06:03

@Hedjwitch It’s under FAQ on the LostProperty.org and they cannot reunite you with your item unless you’ve filled out a form on there (I think you said your son has). As others have said, I confirm that the LostProperty.org office at Waverley is only Monday to Friday. Here’s the link:
www.lostproperty.org/en/faqs.php

BusterGonad · 04/01/2026 05:58

kittensinthekitchen · 04/01/2026 01:31

Where was it? 1996?

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Ha ha. Quite.

HoppityBun · 04/01/2026 05:25

TwinkTucker · 03/01/2026 23:49

I mean, how did he leave his back pack behind?? Surely it was sitting next to him or above him on the train..? What does it have in it? Hopefully he will be more careful in future, what a divv!

Oh that’s so unfair. People forget things all the time, that’s why there’s the message to remember to take your belongings with you. Especially if you’ve put it in the rack above you. It only takes a moment’s absent mindedness and the instant you realise, the train is pulling away.

I mean, that’s why there’s Lost Property.

Someone left a precious violin on a train once https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50195591

Edited to add that I’ve noticed that he did get the violin back. Fingers crossed OP.

Violinist Stephen Morris

Tecchler 310-year-old violin left on train in London

Musician Stephen Morris says the missing £250k instrument is "a piece of history".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50195591

Peridot1 · 04/01/2026 05:22

TwinkTucker · 03/01/2026 23:49

I mean, how did he leave his back pack behind?? Surely it was sitting next to him or above him on the train..? What does it have in it? Hopefully he will be more careful in future, what a divv!

My DS did the same a few months go. Managed to remember his bag of M&S snacks though! Thankfully he had his car at the station and the train terminated two stops away so he was able to drive there and they had it.

Icecreamhelps · 04/01/2026 05:19

TwinkTucker · 03/01/2026 23:49

I mean, how did he leave his back pack behind?? Surely it was sitting next to him or above him on the train..? What does it have in it? Hopefully he will be more careful in future, what a divv!

My son left a trombone on a train once. Had to drive 30 miles to get it. It happens. Good Luck OP

FFSToEverythingSince2020 · 04/01/2026 05:10

@Hedjwitch I’m near Waverley. If tracker shows it here, please let me know if you need help. Good luck!

kittensinthekitchen · 04/01/2026 01:31

snowibunni · 03/01/2026 23:46

Nope, St Anthony. Never fails. One DC had lost a cheque last night. Looked every where. Quick prayer (lapsed catholic here...) 10 minutes later it turned up.

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Where was it? 1996?

Kibble19 · 04/01/2026 00:45

Probably don’t reveal what’s in the bag or what it looks like, OP. You’ll find that someone reads this and “picks it up for you”.

Toothfairy89 · 04/01/2026 00:15

When you say go over tomorrow do you mean travel all the way from Birmingham to Edinburgh? In the hope the bag is in lost property?

What is in this bag?

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