trains

I used to think that if you misbehaved on a train, the driver would open the doors, tilt the train sideways and make you fall down the gap.

Anon

I used to think that when you were waiting for a train, the driver would announce that the train was coming on a megaphone when approaching the station, and you would hear their voice from all the way down the track.

Anon

This train station that me and my mother used often when I was a young child had a small shelter, this shelter had a barred door for security, however, when I was little, I thought the train station had a jail cell for people who were had at the station.

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Anon

Until I was 11 I used to think that travelling on the train under the English Channel would be like in an aquarium where you would be able to see fish swimming casually around you.

Oscar

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Smithk964

I used to believe that if the tyres were removed from a car, it would work perfectly on a railway track.

Anonymous Whistleblower

Firemen start fires. I saw a program about steam trains and the person who started and stoked the fire on the engine was called a fireman.

Nile

I thought that the one railroad used by all the trains of the organization was entirely two tracks, and the trains are lined up and continuously go in a circle, backing up at the turning point to get on to the other track.

Anon

In my area, passenger trains run in the day time, and freight trains run at night, so I thought there were only passenger trains, never seeing the freight trains and all. I have always heard the horns on the freight trains and night, and I thought they were just the passenger trains for many years, until I eventually discovered that they sound completely different than the horns on the passenger trains during the day. I started going crazy wondering what those horns really were, and I thought that maybe they weren't even trains. Luckily, I am now a teen, and I stay up later than I used to. I sometimes go outside at night and see the freight trains go by, realizing that they were the sources all along.

Anon

At the end of the underground line the train would disappear, and a new train would be made out of thin air to follow on the opposite direction.

Anon

I used to believe that the trains in Thomas the Tank Engine were real, but rare and special, and that other trains were "regular" or "ordinary" trains that didn't have a face.

Luke Barber

I used to believe the only purpose of shoes was to prevent your socks from getting dirty. Thanks to my mum's constant nagging!

Danehli

I used to think that in order for a train to move that an airplane would have to fly over the train first!

Marshall

I used to believe when I was young, if I walked across the rail road tracks I would be killed by the electricity.

Michael.

When I was learning about the underground railroad in elementary school, I always imagined that it was really underground. I couldn't wait to, someday, go walk in the underground railroad.

Kim A.