Train stations without platforms?

So after what seemed like a long 7 weeks here in Europe, I can now say that I have a high self-efficacy when it comes to traveling within Prague and by train or bus outside of Prague. I am confident that I could get on any train and find a way to get to my final destination. During one of my many weekends of travel, Lexis and I were headed of to Salzburg, Austria. We learned on the way that even if the timetable says it is a direct train to a certain city, that it may be lying. We are on our first train and we are headed to Linz, Austria where we have a connection to head to Salzburg. After about 45 minutes on the train, we are startled by a women, pretty much yelling at us in Czech. We ask if she knows English and she informs us that we have to get off of the train and get on a bus to the next train station because they are working on the railway. So Lexis and I, feeling a little uncomfortable in this small town with no platforms and pretty much a 4 foot drop from the steps of the train to the ground, we accommodate this change of plans into our schema of what normally happens when we take the train and head off to the bus. We are on the bus for a good 30 minutes before we get to another small train station, but this one at least has people and platforms at it. We then get back on the train and head off to Linz. We arrive in Linz fine, grab some food and then hop on our next train to Salzburg. Once again we are expecting that this train would get us all the way to Salzburg, but of course we were wrong. While taking a nice nap, we get awoken again by loud Czech to learn we have to change trains for a third time on this journey. Lexis and I accommodate again and jump off the train to find the connection. I can't tell you how happy we were to finally be in Salzburg. We learned a lot on this trip, since we did not reserve a hostel for our stay and had no plans for what we wanted to do. We learned a lot from our train ride/bus ride and were more than ready when we encountered the same journey on our way home to Prague.