Help,urgent..train Penzance to Edinburgh

[Hedjwitch]

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!

Very invested

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

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 🙂

@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.

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

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

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!

Fingers crossed

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.

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

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

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!

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".

I really hope you get it back soon!!

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.

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.

The world definitely needs more people like you. What a lovely person you are.

"There's no atheists on a sinking ship"

I hope you get it back successfully x

I left a bag with my passport in it behind on a train once, only realised once I got on my next train. Luckily it was an end of the line station so the train hadn't immediately moved on so I quickly ran back on it, got my bag, then got back on my train.

I hope you find it ok OP.

I once took the train back out of London from a visa appointment and left the bag containing all our passports and visas on the train. Luckily, I realised when I got to the station carpark and it was a frequent service so I jumped on the next train and followed it to the end of the line, where a cleaner had already retrieved it. That was about a grand's worth of passports and visas, so I was extremely relieved!

Argh hope you get it back. Bloody kids. My son once left his on the Glasgow to Edinburgh train and didn’t twig til we were on the train from Edinburgh to London! Thankfully we got it back when we got back to Glasgow.

left the bag containing all our passports and visas on the train

Passports go in a bag that never gets put down.

Oh, be quiet. It can be left over from childhood. I was brought up Catholic, am an absolute atheist, (have been for a very long time) but may reference a saint/ Catholic saying the odd time in conversation - it's a cultural reference point.

Why are religious folk always determined that others are also secretly religious? So wearing.

I had a lump in my throat at item
" Wallet with photo of Grandma in".

Oh bless his heart. I hope he gets it back.