LONDON (AFP) -- Wanderlust got the better of a five-year-old boy who hopped on to a train in Britain and went for a 100 kilometer (60 mile) ride -- all by himself.

Ben Ford "went down the road and got on a train" at Teignmouth, a seaside town in Devon, southwest England, on Sunday afternoon, Devon and Cornwall Police said Monday.

While his worried parents reported him missing, Ben rode the rails until he got off at Taunton, Somerset, where he was found in the station car park and eventually reunited with his family.