i had a similar experience in Norway a year or two back.
having slept in the airport the night before, we were a little disorientated for our 6am train the next morning. what with a frankly ridiculous door/stair/platform system (and our bikes/luggage) at the a station, we managed to miss all 3 trains required to get us to our next long-distance train.
the train we managed to get was a pretty important seeming train – a commuter one in Oslo. we knew we were going to miss the connection, so asked the conductor if the next train was, by any chance, running late. it wasn’t.
the conductor came back, and said that the train driver was going to miss out a couple of stops, to get us there earlier… and they asked the line management to change the arrival platform so that we would arrive next to our connecting train, which had been informed of our late arrival, and was waiting for us…
that train had an entire carriage dedicated to carrying bikes.
flipping awesome service (and the conductor was VERY pretty).