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Posted: 14-10-2008 18:41 Post subject:

Just get on a train. You'll arrive there sooner or later. Laughing

Posted: 14-10-2008 22:52 Post subject:

Posted: 19-10-2008 15:24 Post subject:

Id be up for a Saturday one Smile

Anyways, as we all know from Buffy - Nothing even happens on Halloween Wink

Posted: 20-10-2008 07:25 Post subject:

I fancy Saturday too. Halloween's already booked up with the inflatable skeletons. Laughing

Posted: 07-06-2009 14:35 Post subject:

It's about time we arranged a proper spooky meet/ale-up. Very Happy

Posted: 12-08-2009 21:51 Post subject:

I've just volenteered at Railway Age (Crewe Heritage Centre as we are now...)

Not seen a ghostie yet, but DID see Pete Waterman today, but not to talk to.

I'll keep you all posted if anything kicks off Very Happy

Posted: 13-08-2009 08:10 Post subject:

Take your camera EVERY day!

I too considered volunteering there but was a bit put off by the noise and dirt. The smell of diesel on a hot day, blue overalls tied casually round hips, a grease-smeared white teeshirt, muscles, a cheeky grin... mmm.

What was the number again? Laughing

Posted: 13-08-2009 20:32 Post subject:

Heh...lets put it this way....at 36 Im the youngest of the volenteers who were there by at least 20 years...

Posted: 13-08-2009 20:52 Post subject:

Oi! Fifties isn't old! Evil or Very Mad

Well, early fifties isn't anyway. Wink

Posted: 14-08-2009 20:32 Post subject:

Just an idle thought - is'nt it odd that iron keeps away fairies and such, but not ghosts...

The whole of Railway Age (and indeed much of that part of Crewe) must be impregnated half a mile deep with rust and iron particles.

Even if the ghosties get me I should be safe from the fare folk.

Posted: 14-08-2009 20:45 Post subject:

The original Crewe 'Corporation' houses were built with mortar containing sand from the local railway foundry. As a child I'd notice the shiny metallic spots in the mortar between the bricks and was told 'it's specks of iron.' Very Happy

It's still there in houses near the station. Cool

Posted: 16-08-2009 19:54 Post subject:

I remember you saying - but if they were iron they surely would have been rusty spots, and brass would have verdis-ed? Maybe they were mica? I'll have to go and have a look Wink

Posted: 26-08-2009 21:08 Post subject:

Well second session at Crewe Heritage Centre and it was - interesting.

I was in the exhibition hall using a drill to sand down a hand cart. Round the corner out of site a couple of other guys were doing something trainy, bu hey were out of sight, and while I was running the drill I could'nt hear them.

Bear in mind I was wearing goggles, but a couple of times I thought I saw someone approach out of the corner of my eye, and I thought I saw something white flit under the mail train. Nothing to see when I had a good look though. And no 'spooky' feelings.

Now:

1) I was wearing goggles, which will always cause peripheral vision to be distorted.
2) The whole site is RIDDLED with infrasound! When I was there an boiler just outside was undergoing testing, and of course fully laiden trains were thundering past a few hundred feet away.

I guess at night there are lots of things shirnking and vibrating - rails, engines, buildngs etc that could make the site suprisingly noisy.

I'll be keeping an eye out over the next few months Very Happy

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