Young children on the train on their own...

[highlandcrusader]

I'm on a train from SE to Scotland. 5 young children, ages between 2 - 13 I would say got on and settled on the seats near me (table seats area). They all looked absolutely exhausted and all feel asleep as soon as they sat down. There are no parents or carers anywhere near. Also, they smell quite bad, like they haven't washed in a while.
AIBU to think this is weird?

I know it's none of my business but it feels strange to me. Especially the little one who can't be older than 2 should not be on a train without an adult?

@HangingByYourFingernails I know the OP no longer needs advice!!
The issue was solved fairly quickly and all was fine but people kept the thread going by talking about 4 year olds at boarding school. Meaning people don't read the whole thread and then pages and days later respond with a "omg call the police".
There's already been a post today about "let us know the outcome" - when the OP did that already 😂

@HangingByYourFingernails if people want to go on about 4 year olds who may or may not have travelled to boarding school in 1963 perhaps they should start their own thread 😂

How do you get the time to read every post? I am too busy but try and skim through.

@Heyhoitsme if a thread is up to 5 pages and you don't have time to read it perhaps you should just not bother !
Read a thread with less responses.

I do have a friend who was sent home to boarding school from abroad at the age of six in the fifties. She was put on the plane by her parents and met at the airport by a guardian who then got her to school. It was fairly common but usually some sort of adult assistance was organised. I find it hard to believe a four year old was simply abandoned at a train station without any help. I travelled up and down to London between parents from the age of 12 and was put on and met off but the guard always checked on me several times during the journey. This was in the 70's

To the person who said no UK boarding school takes boarders younger than 7, the school my DC went to took them from age six. Mine were day bugs.

Just read the OP's posts if you want to be updated on the outcome.

Even if you're not of a Thread Police disposition it seems illogical to want to know what's happened to the OP but not want to read what the OP has said about what's happened to her.

I commented on the boarding school at 4 debate because I had read the OP's updates and knew the children were safe with their father and, like a PP I had some first hand and second hand experience, though I, too, would never claim omniscience on the subject!
I, personally, find it funny now that some folk are upset that the conversation has moved on since discovering the happy outcome to OP's problem. I wonder if they patrol their R.L gatherings, moving clusters of people on to new conversations should the topic wander off on a tangent. Surely, if you're no longer interested in the subject being discussed, you are the one to detach from a group and find something more interesting to you? Or have I been doing socialising all wrong for 60 odd years?🤔