Sussex ghost trains
On the rails
I thought to commemorate being able to get a train
again without the stupidity of last year, anywhere in Sussex,
I would hit the tracks and skid around through
The railways of haunted Sussex.
There's a fair bit of haunting around the county.
How about the haunted tunnels?
Did you know that Balcombe Tunnel is haunted?
I love Balcombe trains, as it's exhilarating to go over the rail
Viaduct at Balcombe, and i always thought so,
living in Eastbourne, Worthing and Littlehampton.
Apparently the railway murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton
Left a victim's body in the tunnel further on in 1881,
And three soldiers were killed by a train, during WW1,
Whilst sheltering there, during a bombing raid.
It's reported that two other soldiers were also hit by a train
In there during WW2.
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| Clayton tunnel |
It isn't the only Sussex tunnel haunted by spirits.
Clayton tunnel near Brighton has been haunted apparently
since 1862. A train crash then resulted
in the persistence of screaming noises
and the sound of crunching metal.
The cottage on top this Gothic edifice
is reputedly also haunted. it was built in 1841 by
A Victorian architect called David Mocatta..
Which is interesting in itself,
as Mocatta was the name of Charles Grey's ipsissimus
In The Devil Rides Out...
The tunnel itself appears in the pretty horrible story
by Dickens called "the Signalman"
Not by any means my favourite......
But, by the looks of the tunnel it's a fitting face for a journey into hell!
so you get the idea of its personality...
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