Charfield's Ghost Railway Children - Gloucestershire
A Leeds to Bristol mail train crashed in Charfield, in dense fog, at about 5.30am on October 13th, 1928. Fifteen people were killed and 23 badly injured, two small bodies remained unidentified. One body was a child (of about five), and the other of a child between twelve and seventeen. A granite cross was erected as a memorial to the victims. On it's front ten names were inscribed followed by the poignant inscription "two unknown".

From about 1929 a strange woman dressed in black visited the graves of the two unknown children. She continued her visits right into the 1950s, Joe Kloiber saw the woman:

"The poor lady is at rest now I suppose... All I can tell you is that she was frail, always dressed in black, and came to the grave two or three times a year. She always arrived in a chauffeur-driven limousine, the car was not black, but I cannot remember the colour. She would put flowers on the grave and prey there. "

Two lonely and lost ghostly railway children, walking hand in hand have been reported near the site of the crash.

Molly The Tea Lady - Yeovil Railway Station
The ghost of a tealady who used to work in the buffet, has been encountered at Yeovil Station. The woman named Molly died on the station platform in the 1960s, but she loved the station so much she now haunts it in spirit form.

Although never seen, some of Molly's tricks are swapping cutlery around and turning things on and off. However when asked to stop her mischief, she does so.

Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Ghost Train
During April every year, witnesses have reported seeing the ghost of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. Residents of both Urbana and Piqua have reported the ghostly site of The Lincoln Special, travelling along the train tracks, the ghostly locomotive carries Lincoln's coffin (surrounded by a crew of blue coated skeletons).

"A huge steam-engine draped in black crepe approached, stacks bellowing forth a steady stream of smoke. The brass on the engine gleamed, and it pulled several flat cars along behind it. I stared into the windows of the engine, but couldn't see any crew. Just at the edge of hearing came the faint sound of music and turned to look at the flat cars behind the engine. I gasped and back up so far that I bumped into the trunk of a tree growing near the tracks. There was a glowing orchestra of skeletons seated in a semi-circle. They were playing a nearly-soundless funeral dirge on glowing black instruments. A violinist played passionately; a skeleton lifted a flute to its lipless mouth; a lone drummer sat waiting patiently for his cue from the skeletal conductor.Then the orchestra was gone and another glowing headlight pierced the blackness. I was trying unsuccessfully to push my way through the bark of the tree by this time. Another black crepe draped train was approaching. A funeral train, I thought. Again, there was no one manning the engine, and no one appeared on the flat car behind it. The only thing there was a single black-crepe draped coffin. But swirling in the air around the train were the ghostly figures of soldiers dressed in the blue uniforms worn by the North during the civil war. They lined up before my eyes, saluting the solitary coffin as it passed. Some of the ghosts staggered under the weight of their own coffins; some limped on one leg or sat in a wheeled chair, legless. Their eyes were fixed upon the flat-car and the black-creped coffin. Then they were joined by soldiers from the Southern army, and all these lads saluted too, honouring the one who had fallen. That's when I knew what I was seeing. This was the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln."
S. E. Schlosser

Rothley Steam Railway Station, Leicestershire
Rothley station on the Great Central Railway is haunted by a phantom Station Master, along with several ghostly figures in Edwardian dress.

“There have long been legends about the ghostly figure of an old signalman who used to work at Rothley station, but we certainly didn't expect the report to uncover quite as many spectral passengers waiting for our steam trains!” marketing assistant Lynn Hill.

The unexplained ghostly presence of a man in his fifties dressed in braces and a white shirt, has also been reported on the platform. In the Victorian waiting room two ghostly apparitions have been seen. One a young female carrying a parasol, and the other an older lady in Victorian dress, sitting in a chair by the left hand side of the door. The station it seems is a centre for paranormal sightings. Witnesses have reported seeing a phantom a party of schoolboys with their teacher, on the platform waiting for a train.

 

 

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