Travelling alone (1) - yourself

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[grahame]

Many thanks for all the votes - and recollections - so far.    I'll summarise when the voting closes - just over a day to go,  Any SO types around?   If so, please add your votes - I would hate to end up with a midweek bias!

[JonG]

Buses - 12

Trains - about 16

[Chris from Nailsea]

Sorry, grahame, but my vote is probably going to skew your results slightly. 

Racking my brains, I can't remember travelling on my own on a train until I was an adult: not through any concerns over my welfare, but simply because, where we lived, the train just wasn't an option.

Travelling alone on buses, just for comparison - probably from 12 or 13.

Hope this helps!

CfN 

[welshman]

I was 14 before I travelled alone by train but I was travelling alone on the bus at the age of three!

My late lamented mother used to tell a story that when I was three and we were living in Cardiff, we went to stay in Haverfordwest where my father was working on a temporary summer job.   We were staying in a local hotel.

One morning I disappeared.  I could not be found and the police were called.  Eventually, I was tracked down on the eastbound platform of the station.  I was reported as saying that I was waiting for the Cardiff train to go home because I didn't like it in Haverfordwest.  Precocious, moi?

[New2trains]

35 

I was so worried too, a lone female who was positive i was going to get mugged or worse. 

[coolsecretspy]

i didn't really start traveling on trains until i was about 16 and that was without any parent or guardian with me.

[Glovidge]

I may have as well been an orphan.

Train journey alone 9 years old

Coach journey to Manchester Piccadilly Bus Station 10 years old, arriving at about 11pm. (This was in 1985, I was very frightened waiting to be picked up

Plane to Majorca 9 years old

My mother always tried to palm me off on some poor passenger that she thought was decent looking. And always told the coach driver/ flight attendant or ticket collector (no TMs^▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) in those days)
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I still can't drive!