Episode 72 - Haunted Railways
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2023
- On this special Christmas episode we have one of our favourites - a tenuous paranormal story from the local papers, listener stories from Kat, Harper, and Becky, and then we’ll take you on a journey along some of the most haunted railways of England, as we dive into tales of ghost trains and phantom passengers. Not forgetting, of course, the slightly silly Christmas Quiz!
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Loved the 'bucket' analogy. Great episode, very interesting 👻☠️💀
Many thanks Fitz and Lil for this brilliant episode. Wishing you both a brilliant 2024.
Thank you so much and best wishes for 2024 to you too!
This episode was particularly excellent! I had to immediately check out Ghosts of the London Underground, and am watching that now. Scored zero on the quizzes. 😂
I don’t think a vardoger experience has anything to do with paranormal activity in a home. My home is clean of spirits, yet I have heard my husband come home multiple times when he wasn’t there.
Make the episodes as long as you wish! I relish every minute! Thank you, Lil and Fitz. ❤
As well as regular stations, there were 'halts', which were like request stops for trains.
It's funny, but my choice of 'BBC Ghost Story For Christmas' to watch this year (which I do every Christmas Eve) was 'The Signalman'.
Perhaps the 'pip' of the train described wasn't a diesel horn, but the sound of a Midland steam loco. Each operator (LMS, GWR, LNER & SR etc.) had (and still have, in preservation) distinctive whistle sounds peculiar to their own range of locos, and a short blast of an LMS goods engine whistle could be described as a 'pip'.
This is brilliant! I'm a railway girl. Been on the railways for over 20 years. Yup, it's haunted like no one's business. We all know about it. In recent years, the culture has changed though and many decent people have been bullied out of their jobs, to be replaced with diversity hires and friends and relatives of the senior managers. Happened to me and many others who were passionate about their jobs. There's no one around now who still gives a hoot about anything, that's why the railways are in such a mess.
But I'll always be a railway girl because that's my passion. I was good at what I did, had that confirmed many times. The corruption that's sweeping the railways now can't change that, and these evil creatures (corrupt managers) can't take that away from me.
Maybe a lot of the hauntings on the railways is the old railway men turning in their graves when they see what's being done to the railways nowadays!
I've had some experiences too... and heard a lot of ghost stories in all my years on the railroad.
Happy Christmas Lil and Fiz!
So sad that the British Railways has been going down the drain . Britain build the railways in all the Commonwealth countries of their Empire and ran like clockwork efficiency as it still does in Japan .
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@@afzaalkhan.m It's absolutely heartbreaking what's become of the British railways! Yup, in Japan the trains run, in fact they are timed to the second and they only allow a delay of up to three seconds. There was an incident a few years ago where a train driver killed himself because he arrived a few seconds late into a station! He was terrified of getting into trouble! Very tragic that was! But yes the trains are reliable there.
I see the Severn Valley Railway is haunted. I used to volunteer on the SVR, at first in the ticket office and then in one of the signal boxes. I always had the feeling there was something unseen - not negative, just unseen from the past - around. I'm not surprised one bit that the SVR managers denied the existence of the ghost train... they are a bunch of corrupt and stuck up freaks that stole one of my ideas and made a bunch of money with it - while being abusive towards me! I left because of that. That was in 2004. Haven't been back there since and won't go back. I don't need no grief from a bunch of tossers.
It's a shame really because the line is beautiful, stunning scenery, goes right past Bewdley Safari Park (not immediately next to it but I've seen a few giraffes from the train - not an everyday sight in the UK), the signal boxes are amazing, and they have really beautiful engines and rolling stock. But the ticket prices are shocking and with that corruption - forget it. There's other preserved heritage railways around.
Blimey, Abe Lincoln sure gets around a bit doesn't he! I knew about him knockin' about in the White House but didn't know he's going round railroad lines and his former homes as well. What's keeping him in this world I wonder?
He really does!! There's quite a few other locations as well that I didn't cover in the show.
@@Knockonceforyes I came across a video the other day about Abe Lincoln and his wife, and apparently she was a bit of an aggressive one. Apparently he was none to happy with her. Maybe he is haunting all these locations to get away from her in the afterlife...? Poor Abe, hope he finds peace!