You see all sides of society as a stationmaster. You have your mothers with prams, business drones, schoolkids, psychos, bums, drunks -- you name it. No matter how out of the city main you are, rail stations are like people magnets.
I am a station master at a relatively quiet station. Most trains don't actually stop here out of peak times -- average of one an hour except overnight when there's no stops between 2am and 4am. If you need to get somewhere then your choices are waiting it out, or walking. My station isn't exactly a money-spinner. They can't even bother fixing the camera outside my office.
Now, as you expect, most of the scum surface late at night, while the regular folks tend to only appear during daylight. Occasionally a poor guy or gal will get stranded on the platform with a weirdo, which is quite unpleasant for them.
Occasionally I let them inside the office -- even though it's totally against protocol -- for safety. The camera doesn't work, and it's not like I'm going to get busted at 2am by a superior.
Overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday is the slowest night of all. It's uncommon to see anyone at the station between midnight and 4am. Those that so come are usually drunks leaving the pub and almost invariably male. There are exceptions though, such as Bess.
Bess was blonde and slender with grey-green eyes, but her buck teeth and acne scarring made her rather unattractive to most of her male peers.
"It's not really safe out here. You're welcome to come in here!" I said to her as she planted herself on a nearby bench to wait for the next train.
She looked at me standing in the office doorway and raised an eyebrow. "You sure?" she asked.
"Sure I'm sure. Never been caught yet."
Bess grinned and swaggered over, nearly tripping in her heels and giggling at her own clumsiness.
"I'm a li'l drunk." She announced as she appeared in the doorway.
"Odd day of the week to go drinking." I retorted.
"Tis okaaay, I dun hafta work today!" she slurred in response.
"Heh, that's lucky for you then, isnt it?" I asked rhetorically with a grin.
"Got water or something?" she asked.
"Water, um, actually no." I replied as I lifted my jacket off the bottle of vodka on the desk. "I've got this though."