A GLITCH on travel app Trainline hilariously left one commuter with a whopping 2,000-year wait between their two trains.
The unnamed Brit was set to change trains at Preston Station in Preston, Lancashire on their way to Liverpool on Monday but was presented with a bizarre wait time.
Trainline advised the commuter that their train would arrive at Preston at approximately 3:10pm – but that the wait until their next one would be 17,736,830 hours and 30 minutes.
The side-splittingly long wait between line changes meant the passenger could expect to hang around in Preston for just over 2,024 years.
The stunned commuter took to social media to jokingly ask for suggestions on how to kill the time.
Sharing a screenshot of their Trainline app, it shows that whilst the train into Preston arrives at 3:10pm and the train to Liverpool Lime Street departs at 3:30pm, the time in-between somehow equates to two millennia.
The endless wait appears to have been caused by a glitch in the Trainline app after the train the commuter was attempting to board was delayed.
This caused the app to set the trains arrival time as “null” – or 0000 – and then estimate its arrival time as the current date and year.
This resulted in the app displaying a roughly estimated arrival time of 2,024 years five months and 27 days – or in other words, 27 May 2024.
The commuter shared the screenshot to social media on Monday writing: “Got about 2,000 years to kill in Preston. Anyone got any advice?”
The post received over 2,200 likes and more than 125 comments from users keen to offer their time-killing advice to the stranded stranger.
One user said: “Start a religion – then when you get the train the primary school kids will sing ‘2,000 years ago in Preston-hem’.”
Another joked: “2,000 years in Preston? A fate worse than death.”
A third wrote: “Have you considered just walking home? Heck, you can go the other way around the Earth if you want, there’s time.”
Another added: “Britain’s first KFC is about two minutes’ walk down the road from the station.”
Trainline has been contacted for comment.
