The guard had to do something to show he was in control, so he marched us to the Stationmaster's office, where we were offered tea
and asked all the same questions in a marginally more official manner.
The train schedules are far from fixed, while the journey itself is sometimes free- on the day of the aforementioned accident, none of the passengers
had been required to buy tickets because the Stationmaster was asleep in his bedroom, which doubled as the station's ticketing booth.