A Family's Train Journey

On a busy railway platform, Platform Number 2, this typical family is waiting for a train. Going by their looks, they're lower middle class - perhaps waiting for their second class seats. The mother, who's aged about 50 - looking clueless, a young daughter - about 15 years who's all excited and a son of about 22 years, on whom their travel rests. The son looking attentively in the direction from whence the train will approach -- perhaps to fight for three seats in an unreserved compartment. The son is carrying their baggage - a small blue plastic handbag, a gym bag, and a purse. He's holding on to them with so much conviction that gives one an idea that it's all they have. The daughter is getting restless and the mother is getting worried. The son moves a bit towards the edge of the platform to catch a glimpse of the train before others, but the tracks are dry so far as the eyes can see. There's a booming announcement on the speakers that says the train will be late by 1/2 hour. There's a sudden rush on the platform, everybody who was standing close to the edge now runs to find a seat for themselves. In a few minutes, the platform is all settled, but this family does not manage to find seats. The son decides that they'll sit on the floor. He lays down the three articles on the floor and squats - slightly leaning on the gym bag and gently closing his eyes - perhaps to compensate for the morning's hard work. The mother and sister squat besides him. He's suddenly woken by the jolt of the moving platform beneath him. It takes a while, perhaps a dreaded minute, before he realises what's going on. It's perhaps this minute of reckoning that costs him dearly. He's squatting not on the platform but in a train, his bags - which are tightly clinched by his rustic hands - are placed on the seat that's close to him. His mother and sister are not to be seen around. And the train is moving, leaving the platform, picking speed as it does. He's clueless how he ended up over there. All of a sudden he's taken by fear about his family's whereabouts. He looks around but finds only strangers. He tightens the grasp on his belongings and heads to the nearest exit door. In desperation he gets down on the coach stairs, but by now the train has picked up speed and is too fast to get down. It has left the platform behind by about a kilometre. He stands there, stiff, with the overgrown bushes brushing past him, a few that are not so kind, piercing him with their thorns or hard twigs. He looks around to gather his bearings, but just notices strange and plush countryside. He notices a fork in the railway line a while ahead, with an old man waving at the train standing in the middle of one of the tracks. For a moment he's concerned for the old man, for if the train goes his way, there'll be no time for the old man to get out of the tracks. The train, perhaps as intended, takes the other leg and moves on. He waves back to the old man. Just then, a thought tickles him, that if he hadn't wasted a minute in discerning the situation, he would have just been able to get out of the train before it gained speed. His worry for his sister and mother now has no bounds. He thinks about how he'll get back. He'll perhaps jump out and run back, or he'll perhaps get down in the next station and take a train backwards. Will a train be going back at this time ? Will it reach within 1/2 hour ? Perhaps he'll take an auto back. What would his sister and mother have done ? Would they have got into their train ? Would they be stalked by a stranger ? P.S: In a real life situation thus, there's an emergency brake located in every compartment. It is usually captioned 'To stop the train pull the chain' which you can use to halt the train.