Catching the Train or not?

This story happened at a railway station in Ukraine. Three men arrived at the station at 8:05pm and asked the stationmaster the time of the next train to Kiev. He told them it would be at 9:00pm. They decided that they had enough time for a drink and they went to a pub.
They came back an hour later and were told that they had just missed the train and that the next one was at 10:00pm, another at 11:00pm and the last one at 12:00pm.
They went back to the pub for drinks but kept missing the trains. As the 12:00pm was leaving 2 of them managed to jump on board. But the third was left behind on the platform.
This man began to laugh. The stationmaster asked him,
"Why are you laughing? You've just missed your train!"
The man replied that he was supposed to catch the train and his two friends had only come to say goodbye!
SUZAN & JAROSLAV