"When a rail company’s replacement bus service broke down in the middle of the night, miles from its destination, the passengers thought that the journey could not get any worse. They didn’t count on the possibility that the train’s staff would hop into a taxi and disappear into the frosty night, leaving them stranded in the snow for several hours." (link below.)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2566569,00.html