GHOST TRAIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 10

GHOST TRAIN

EERIE SCOTTISH HAPPENINGS.

Two scientists were asked to probe tho mystery of Corrour’s haunted railway, writes a correspondent from Cor-, rour, Inverness, to a London paper. Corrour is situated on Rannock Moor in some of the wildest country, in the Highlands. It is 600 miles from London on the line to Fort William. Only six trains a day stop at Corrour station, which has neither offices nor staff. A short while ago “things happened” on the line.

Trucks jumped in sidings in the middle of the night. Strange whistles were heard from the heart of the moor. Trains were heard approaching, but they never arrived. Furniture in the gangers’ cottage on the line moved about in the night. A young ganger, a stranger to the district, was so upset by these eerie

happenings that he applied for a transfer. - -..-'---I I went to investigate the mystery of Corrur’s railway ghost. When I arrived at the station there was no one to greet me. A mile along the line

I met one of a gang of workers. > “What about this haunted station?” > I asked him. “Haunfed station?” he repeated. I “The whole line’s haunted. But it’s ' the gangers’ hut you ought to be seeing. You.’d better come with me." , Wo walked another two miles to the cottage on the moor. Inside there were

| beds, tables and furniture. 1 learned that all the gangers working on the line slept here for company. The men were intelligent and cautious Scots. “One night not long ago, when we heard the noises we lit a candle. A chair moved across-tha flopr r a distance of four feet. it was a kind of hopping movement.” v