THE GHOST TRAIN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 February 1929, Page 4

THE GHOST TRAIN

ORIGIN OF THE NAME. , The "ghost" train on which Driver J. Rubber died a few weegs ago, just before it entered St David's Station, Exeter, possibly originally got it's name among railwaywen Decause it travels during the night almost the whole way from Penzance to London. But the three deaths of Newton Abbot railwaymen engaged on it! during the last 12 months are giving the name a sinister significance in that town. Fireman C. Hassard, who was with Driver Rubber, was also, connected with a previous fatality in connection with the train. He had arranged with Fireman Powlesland, who was firing the train, to. spend their few hours' leave in London together, bull going to Paddington found Fireman powlesland dead. Most of the express trains have names among railway men. The "Owl" leases Paddington at 1 midnight; the "Zulu" was first run at the time of the Zulu War; the "Flying Dutchman" is the oldest express on the time tables; the "Honeymoon Express" leaves Paddington at 3.30> p. m Two of the 60-mile-an-hour goods trains are known as "Tip" and "Tig," the latter usually having a ! large consignment, of porkers.