the horrific journey begins Part 1

The following week was a school holiday at Landau. Felix had left the previous Saturday with Connie to visit some friends. Andi left with her boyfriend, Mario the following Monday morning. Felix and Andi gave us careful instructions and a schedule of train departures for us to get from to the train, bus and plane. It was as follows.

Station..........Time...Track/Stop
Landau...........23:49...4
Neustadt.........00:09...5
Neustadt.........00:33...4
Ludwigshafen.....00:59...3
Ludwigshafen Bus.03:05...6
Hahn Airport.....04:50
Ryan Air.........06:00...7

We watched for the precise timing, bus number and station name.
Exactly 2349 our expected train rolled in. We climbed aboard and watched for our Neustadt stop. Tentetively I pushed (what I assumed was) the open-door button. *swish* we were out. We walked to the next platform, at 00:09 to wait for the 00:33 train. It arrived at 00:31 and departed exactly 00:33. (do you see a precise pattern?)
From there it got somewhat confusing. The stations were whizzing past and there were probably 3 people on the train (including two douchebags who were smoking in front of the Rauchen verboten 'smoking is forbidden' sign).
We watched as Ludwigshafen .. Oh no! was that our station!?! Surely not, it was only 00:51. Then at 00:58 another Ludwigshafen stn came into view. We doubled checked the spelling, it looked okay. Yes! So close to our time.. we didn't miss it! I hastily pushed the button and we rolled our suitcases off onto

... plank boards....... ... ..

..............in complete darkness

......................with NO ONE around..............

............at 01:00 A.M....
we watched with great dread as the tail lights of the last train of the night faded into the horizon.