The Paranormal Database

Overwhelming Presence

Location: Liverpool (Merseyside) - Walton Junction Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s onwards
Further Comments: It is said that ever since the last steam engine left this site, an evil, repressive presence has descended upon the area.

Cuppage

Location: Lurgan (County Armagh) - Railway lines
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Date of last sighting unknown, but reputed to be a nightly event
Further Comments: Drunk after splitting up with his wife, Cuppage decided to try to convince her to return. Knowing that she would be on a certain train, he foolishly stood on the tracks; the train did not stop and Cuppage was decapitated. His headless ghost now walks along the track every night with head tucked under his arm. A slight variant of the tale has Cuppage lose a couple of limbs instead of his head, and now he looks for the missing appendages.

Station Porter

Location: Lyonshall (Hereford & Worcester) - Disused railway station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1940 onwards
Further Comments: Since closing, this station has become a haunt for a sad looking man, who is said to have once been a porter at the building.

White Dog

Location: Macclesfield (Cheshire) - South of railway station
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: November 2011, around 21:45
Further Comments: Departing the station, this train driver reported seeing a white misty dog move quickly across the track from left to right. One side of the railway stands a six metre high wall, while on the other a 3.5 metre high mesh fence - nowhere where the dog could have come from or disappeared to.

Misty Female Figure

Location: Maldon (Essex) - Disused railway station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1950s onwards
Further Comments: Reports of a figure waiting on Platform Two date back towards the end of the 1950's. The station is no longer there; it became a public house before being left empty and for sale, but the figure is still seen, making a strange groaning sound as it walks. An icy chill is said to denote her presence.

Footsteps

Location: Manchester (Greater Manchester) - Mayfield Station (as of January 2013, empty)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s onwards
Further Comments: The footsteps have been heard echoing in the building late at night - they are believed to be those of a suicide (one of several which occurred here over the years) that occurred in the mid-twentieth century.

Crying Baby

Location: Maryport (Cumbria) - Dearham Bridge railway station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A man once threw his new-born child under a train here, killing the infant. The father was hanged for the crime. Now, as a train is now about to enter the tunnel, the child can occasionally be heard screaming before being hit.

White Lady

Location: Merthyr Tydfil (West Glamorgan) - Aberdare-Merthyr Rail Tunnel (closed, no public access)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Since closing in 1962, local stories have sprung up saying the site is haunted by a white lady and/or the occasional ghost train.

Fred Nicholson

Location: Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) - Railway Station
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: A young station boy reported seeing Fred, a signalman whom he knew, vanish in front of his eyes. He was told that Fred had fallen in front of a train a few hours earlier, dying instantly.

Floating Woman

Location: Millom (Cumbria) - Railway Bridge
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1990, 23:00h
Further Comments: A local story says that a woman leapt from the bridge during the Second World War after hearing that her husband had died in battle. Some fifty years later, a witness spotted a woman in old fashioned clothing hovering above a hedge next to the bridge. The figure appeared to be missing her legs.

Rail Employee

Location: Mullingar (County Westmeath) - Scoutail Bridge (bridge over railway line)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A local story says that the bridge is haunted by a former station employee killed in an accident.

Steam Train

Location: N2 (Greater London) - East Finchley to Wellington Sidings underground
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This stretch of the Northern Line is reputed to be haunted by a spectral steam engine.

Sounds of a Train

Location: N6 (Greater London) - Highgate High Level Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Started during the Second World War, the station was never finished, though locals sometimes reported the sound of a steam train along where the track was supposed to have been laid. One rational explanation put forward is that the sounds of the trains came from nearby stations which were active until the 1970.

POWs

Location: Netherfield (Nottinghamshire) - Railway track behind Jackie Bells public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: A CCTV system at the pub was said to have picked up the sounds of German prisoners of war singing, the sound coming from the area of the railway line. The track was once used to transport POWs, and the area beyond the pub was a holding area. The ghostly figure of a man has also been observed walking along the track, vanishing without warning.

Steam Locomotive

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear) - Central station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1988
Further Comments: A driver of a pacer train pulling into a bay platform spotted a steam locomotive starting to pull away from the platform towards him. The driver promptly engaged the emergency brakes, only for the steam locomotive to disappear. No one else witnessed the steam locomotive in the bay platform.

Norwich Railway Station, Norfolk.

Large Rat

Location: Norwich (Norfolk) - Railway Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This station is home to a frightful entity which takes the form of a rat-like creature with large teeth and obnoxious breath.

Steam Engine

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Mapperley Tunnel, southern end
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970
Further Comments: Two school children playing in the tunnel heard a steam engine rapidly approaching them - terrified they ran out into the fresh air. A few seconds after their escape they realised that the train could not have existed, as the north end of the tunnel was barricaded.

Woman

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Railway bridge over Wood Lane, and Gedling Station (currently a youth centre)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The phantom woman who is said to peer over the edge of the bridge and watch passers-by may be the same entity also reported at the old station.

Mabel

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - RHM Factory, part of which was Daybrook Railway Station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1970s, early 1980s
Further Comments: Workers at the factory sometimes reported a phantom woman in one of the mixing rooms, which was once Daybrook Station. After improvements were made to this part of the plant, Mabel never returned.

A ghost travels along disused rail tracks.

Man with Lamp

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Sherwood Rise Tunnel near former New Basford station (tunnel now bricked up)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1953
Further Comments: A phantom man swinging a lamp was seen emerging from the tunnel and walking a short distance along the track before vanishing. He was thought to be an engine driver killed during the 1890s.

Clanks of the Carriage

Location: Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) - Thorneywood Station (no longer operational) and tunnel (now bricked up)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1960s, 1970s
Further Comments: Sounds of old steam engines, and the clanking of carriages were heard around this former station, even though the last train to pass through was in 1951. The tunnel was said to be haunted by the sounds of footsteps that crunched on the gravel, and some say that a ghostly train still travels through it.

Accident

Location: Nuneaton (Warwickshire) - Railway line and bridge near the Bomb Hills
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa October 1986
Further Comments: Two people walking home spotted steam coming from under a bridge. Looking down from the bridge they could see a stationary steam locomotive and dozens of people laying across the tracks - the scene appeared semi-transparent. The witnesses ran off to find someone, and returned several minutes later, by which time train and figures had gone.

Platform 10 of King's Cross Station, London.

Boudica's Grave

Location: NW1 (Greater London) - King's Cross Station, Platform 10
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present?
Further Comments: The final resting ground of the warrior queen is reported to be under this busy platform.

Distressed Woman

Location: NW1 (Greater London) - King's Cross underground station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: May 1998
Further Comments: A witness spotted a woman in her twenties with long brown hair, wearing jeans and t-shirt. The figure was kneeling at the side of the corridor with her arms outstretched, and appeared distressed and crying. Someone walking in the opposite direction then walked through the woman. The witness said that upon reflection, it was like watching a repeating piece of film.

Moving Chairs

Location: NW1 (Greater London) - St Pancras Railway Station
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: July 2013
Further Comments: Several workers at the Eurostar terminal have reported poltergeist activity in the corridors that run parallel with Pancras Road. Doors have been opened and closed and chairs refuse to budge when people try to push them.