More than 100 train passengers were left stranded in Spain after the driver decided to down tools and disappear when his shift ended.
The train stopped outside the village of Osorno at 9.15pm local time, two hours after it left Santander in northern Spain on course for Madrid.
"The driver said he had finished his work shift and there was no substitute, so he stopped the train and got off," a spokesman for the Civil Guard police force said.
One of the 109 abandoned passengers said they were told the train had stopped for technical reasons.
"Then 15 minutes later they said the driver had decided to stop because he had gone over his limit," the passenger told local newspaper El Diario Montañés.