The driver only realised his mistake when another train overtook him, by which time it was too late to stop before the track ended.
On a quad-track line, faster trains can overtake slower ones.
It was one of the few intermediate stations on the line with four tracks, to allow express trains to overtake those stopping at the station.
It contains four tracks of rails allowing the trains to cross tracks or the express trains to overtake slower passenger or freight trains.
You have to work around each other, use the crossovers from track to track, to have a fast train overtake a slow one.
The former third platform track was taken out of use during the remodelling so that trains can no longer overtake at the station.
This train will overtake a 500 Series Shinkansen that runs approximately 580 km/h.
In the time that the gang have wasted arguing, the train has overtaken them.
In quadruple track, faster trains can overtake slower ones, and quadrupling can contribute to faster operation of trains.