GHOST TRAIN.

Western Star, 21 August 1936, Page 4

GHOST TRAIN.

EERIE SCOTTISH HAPPENINGS Two scientists were asked t° prove the mystery of Cirrour's haunted railway (writes a correspondent from Coriour, Inverness, to. a London paper). Gorrour is situated on Bannock Moor Highlands. It is 600 miles from Loudon on. the line to Fort William. Only six trains » day stop at Corrour Htation, which lias neither offices nor etaff. 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 "angers' cottage on the line moved about in the night.

A young ganger, a stranger to the district, was so upset »y these eerie happenings that he applied for a transfer. I went to investigate the. mystery of Corrour'.s railway ghost. When 1 arrived at the station there was no one to "-reet me. A mile along the line I met one of a gang of workers. "What about this haunted station?" I asked him. "Haunted station?.' he repeated. •'The whole line's haunted. But it's the gangers' hut you ought to he seeing. You'd better come with me.V We walked another two miiles to. the | cottage on the moor. Inside there, were j beds, tables, and furniture. I learned j that'all the gangers on the line slept here for company. The men were intelligent at'd cautious Scot*. '•One night not long ;, £° when we heard the noises \\"e lit a candle. A chair moved across the Moor a distaii.ee <M" 4ft. It was a kind of hopping movement..''