Might be a clue here:
"This quirky detached wooden property,
built in 2004 in the form of a signal box, is adjacent to the station in the Badenoch & Strathspey village of Newtonmore and was featured in The Times' list of '50 best cottages, beach houses and rural retreats' in January 2013."
https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/cot...s-National-Park-Biallaid/Signal-Box-1304.html
Just not sure what it might be...
@queenofwands :
890 thoughts on “Missing Time Experience”
might have been within an astonishing 890 comments...!?
Found it:
"Jeff, I really appreciate your thoughts and, believe me, I had considered the same explanation. The problem lies in the fact that on the train, I was so engrossed in chatting with my new Scots friends, I can’t believe I would have fallen asleep in mid-sentence. They knew where I was going but would not have awoken me to let me know I had arrived? Still, suppose I had fallen asleep and gone accidentally to Inverness, where the train stops at the end of the line approximately a half-hour later? Someone would have had to get me off the train, complete with luggage, and put me onto a return late train to Newtonmore — for which I would have had to purchase a ticket — all the while with my not knowing a thing, seen to it that I got off at Newtonmore and steered me up Station Road to the village. Alternative: Suppose I actually did get off the train but fell asleep on the side of the road with my suitcases for three hours. It is the only road from the station to the main street of the small village, and I find it quite incomprehensible to imagine that someone would not have been passing by and attempted to rouse me (in a metropolis, yes; in a fantastically helpful and friendly countryside, no). Beyond that, with over twenty red-eye flights abroad (nine continuing to Scotland), both by myself and in the company of my eyewitness husband, absolutely nothing like this ever happened to me/us. If it was a dream/hallucination, that alternative is more scary than any other explanation! I have had lucid dreams, but with those you wake up to your familiar environment where you fell asleep and, while it seemed very real, you know you couldn’t have physically moved to the location.
But thanks for your hypothesis — I’m still struggling to explain it all just to myself…!"
Linda Smith
August 5, 2010 at 12:14 pm
She makes some good points but there are very few trains that stop at this station so possible she sat on a bench and nodded off and no-one passed by her. Also, the train would almost certainly have reversed at Inverness for the return journey that passes the station an hour later, so she could in theory have remained on the same train.
But, the mystery here is that she 'saw' a version of the station and its environs that has never existed as she describes it. She states she used the hotel's website to find her way from the station. Back in 2004 smartphones were in their infancy and the likelihood of a decent signal slim, so more likely she had a print out of the webpage, which in turn supports the scenario in which she sat down on a station bench to check the directions and nodded off. But that is just a theory.