train mystery

[schiehallion]

I once read in the daily mirror a good few years ago, (it was in the old codgers section) about a train that entered a tunnel at edge hill just outside liverpool but never came out the other side, a reader was asking whether this was true and the codgers affirmed this fact saying it happened in the early 1900s can this be confirmed
cheers

[123everton]

Try asking here http://www.slemen.com/
Sounds like b o l l o c k s to me.

[fredpuli47]

This is the plot of the play "The Ghost Train" by Arnold Ridley ( who later played the very old recruit in Dad's Army), later made into films, notably the comedy "Oh, Mr Porter" starring Will Hay. Sounds as though some Liverpool wit has adopted it for a story of their own! In the original story, a train leaves and completely disappears, without trace. The answer to the riddle is that it has been diverted, by I R A gun-runners, into a disused tunnel where the weapons it is secretly carrying are unloaded. It never does come out the other side of the tunnel .