A judges wig and gown and £30,000 in cash, the weirdest items left on trains
- Lauren Chapman
- Mar 24, 2017
- 2 min read
Many of us are unfortunately all too familiar with the pain of forgetting an item on public transport, whether that be a coat, shopping or even our phones it’s no surprise that globally an estimated 19 per cent of items are lost on public transport every year.
However lost property office workers from Train stations across England have revealed just a few of the many strange and interesting items they came across in 2016.
Cross Country staff highlighted a number of odd items that customers have requested the retrieval of after leaving on the train, such as:
A jar of pickles
An inflatable dolphin
A trapeze without the ropes
A rubber duck
A customer is even said to have left a box of pastries on the train which they were adamant they wanted back!
Perhaps most astonishingly of all, is the £30,000 in cash a passenger left on a Cross Country train, a sum of money that was never claimed or reported missing.
Birmingham trains are no strangers to odd lost property either, with East Midlands staff reporting that a Judge from Birmingham Crown court, who at the time was in the middle of a big case, left his judicial gown and wig on a main line train heading to Glasgow. Luckily hardworking staff were able to trace the items and contact the train, meaning the judge got his lost property returned to him in Derby the same night.
The lucky judge was said to be ‘Very grateful’ and was able to carry on his case in court the next morning due to fast working staff. When asked about the oddest item left on the trains East Midland lost property staff described one of their most memorable finds:
“We have had a case full of *Sexual Items* left on a Cross Country train in the past”.
No further information was given on exactly what the ‘sexual items’ were.
Occasionally staff are faced with not only property being left behind but ‘livelier’ finds too… With a passenger somehow managing to leave their Parrot behind on a train from Birmingham New Street to Nottingham.
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