How’s this for a station announcement? “The train at platform five is the 7am express from Manchester Piccadilly via Stockport to London Euston – but passengers cannot travel on this service.” That ...

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, with festivities planned to commemorate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington line to the public on September 27, 1825.

Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and ’50s towed their own haunted railroad. These “ghost trains” represented the peak of pop-up dark ...