Found a lost iPhone without a sim

How would I go about finding the original owner? It's password protected too and I tried a few common combinations with no avail.

Is there no way to find out their details with the serial and stuff? Would prefere doing that as I'd have to pay for a train journey, if not I'll have to do that I guess!

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