Ghosts On Railways

johncas · Post by **johncas** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:58 pm

Dose any one belive on ghosts on the railways ae railways haunted

I have to admin I have seen funny things on the Great Cental Railway rothley station

I and other people have seen a semaphore signal change on it's own at the exact time a train would of passed in the old days there was no signal man to change it

People have seen what looks like a red tail lamp light go past down the track and felt the wind you get when trains pass at speed people have also seen ghosts of old station staff have any of you folks seen anything like that at an old railway station on a steam railway or on a disused railway.

andiofwbafc · Post by **andiofwbafc** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:06 pm

An appropriate thread for Halloween.

I do believe in ghosts although I have never actually witnessed any on the railways.

philbozz · Post by **philbozz** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:15 pm

Nah

I'm surprised it isn't the excuse for trains running late today..Ghost on the rails

allypally · Post by **allypally** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:36 pm

funny bout old staff. i got off a train at Codsall 3 or 4 years back, and the station buildings were disused. it was 2310 and it was the last train through for the night, except the odd Ironbridge coal. standing by the station was some old guy who was dressed quite weird. i asked him what was up, being a helpful kinda teenager, and he said "im waiting, always waiting" and i asked him what for, and he said "the train of course" so i went off, thinking he was a drunk.(the station is now a pub) as i only live 1 min from the station. he seemed a little old to be drunk. but then, i spoke to the old volunteer who keeps the place tidy, and he said he saw soemthing before. weird things happen eh? and i could have sworn that when i was 3 or 4 years old i saw a ghost steam engine down in Oxley yard as i passed.

duncharris · Post by **duncharris** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:37 pm

cf the other thread on nonsense, http://forums.atomic-systems.com/viewto ... &start=195

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 11:29 pm

Ghosts are just bugs in the Matrix. I thought everyone realised that.

Timcourt1 · Post by **Timcourt1** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 2:29 am

Yup, when a program does what it is not supposed to do, those old programs that never got deleted.

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 7:03 am

Im sure there's a ghost in my copy of MSTS - or at the very least its haunted. AI train timetables seem to change on their own and in more than one activity a train has appeared ahead of me that isn't in the AI schedule, and not visible in activity editor.

spooky, but ive learned to live with it.

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:17 am

Quite seriously, the eeriest place I've been on the railway was Oxford shed at twighlight when it was used to store withdrawn locos. Walking along the lines of 'dead' locomotives, I definately sensed a feeling of their former power ....

Spooky

NZBigDave · Post by **NZBigDave** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:42 pm

Most worrying thing I've done was walk along a disused tunnel in the Kaimai Ranges. Kept looking back in case a goods train came thundering down the line.

johncas · Post by **johncas** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 8:43 pm

I have the okd Leicester belgrave road to melton and skegness line used to run behing my house bottom of back garden but the line in built on now and I hesrd one day a Whistle it was a BR one because I have one and it sounded the same the heard a steam train wistle and heard nothing else I was getting something form the garden shead

Also At Leicester North Station on Great Central Railway I saw a man walk in to the old store room under the bridge the old station is gone and new one built but the old porters room is still there also I have been in the room looking for paint brushes could not find them the maintinance man comes up and says whos your mate in there I was on my own then turned round to see the paint brushes there by my keys they wornt there before

allypally · Post by **allypally** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 8:52 pm

i dont like Crewe, allthe dead locos on one side, and the coaches on the other

TOMMO79 · Post by **TOMMO79** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:32 pm

NZBigDave wrote:Most worrying thing I've done was walk along a disused tunnel in the Kaimai Ranges. Kept looking back in case a goods train came thundering down the line.

Reminds me of a couple of stories one of my friends told me, one funny and one spooky.

Back in the 70's him and a friend used to walk along old trackbeds, One time they were planning to walk through what must have been quite a long tunnel and quite popular with walkers. They took a ghetto blaster with them containing a tape of steam trains and when they were halfway down hid in one of the duckets. Soon afterwards a couple of old women were coming towards them so they played the tape at full blast! Despite the fact that there was no track he said they couldn't get out of there any faster.

During another trip they walked through another disused tunnel, apparently they were familiar with it and had been through plenty of times. They had been walking for quite a while and were pretty sure that they should have made it to the end sometime ago, however it was nowhere in sight. they carried on walking far longer than they should have then their torches stopped working and they had an overwhelming feeling that if they carried on walking they would never get out of there so they turned around and he obviously lived to tell the tale

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:11 pm

I believe in ghosts (through personal experience

)
But on the railways?

heh ... just get a few sacks of flour and throw it over a small tank engine

THERE'S YOUR GHOST GENTLEMEN!

37sRuleOK · Post by **37sRuleOK** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 12:32 am

I thought it was lime, not flour?

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