![]() “No words can describe how isolated this place was.” The closest road was three miles away the only nearby structures were a shuttered pub and an old windmill. “It has to be one of the maddest places we have both been to,” he says. ![]() To celebrate his 50th birthday, they went to Berney Arms in Norfolk. They take pictures at each one and try to put them on their website, with detailed descriptions about how to get there and what to expect. Hall-Smith has been chasing the trains since 1993, visiting 41 ghost stations. ![]() The sheer mystery of ghost trains is part of what makes them compelling to a small, but passionate, community of “ghost train hunters” that, Hall-Smith and Moralee say, spans the globe, sharing information online through websites like theirs. But a request from the Department of Transport for overall numbers turned up nil: “The department doesn’t hold a definitive list of these low-frequency routes, because we don’t use the terminology of ghost train – there’s no formally agreed definition of what would constitute one,” says Andrew Scott, one of the Department of Transport’s press officers. Northern Rail, which runs the Leeds to Snaith line, said they have six such trains that’s out of 2,500 services they run each day. Official figures are difficult to track down.
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