Ghostly Wanderings and Train Holidays to Europe

You decided you wanted a bit of luxury for your holiday this year and so decided that train holidays to Europe sounded like fun. You have booked your tickets and packed your suitcase, and are searching forward to watching the spectacular European scenery breeze past you from your train carriage window. But there could be a couple of things along the way that you could not be expecting to see - 1 of them is a ghost!

The railroad has an fascinating and varied history with extra than a few stories of haunted happenings and ghostly yarns. You could be lucky (or unlucky) sufficient to witness your very own eerie ghost sighting whilst on your train holidays to Europe.

Stockholm

The railway in this city has additional than its fair share of haunted rail stories - the most widely used getting the Silverpilen ghost train. Folks say that this mythical train can be seen at midnight flying past stations at high speed. As legend has it, sometimes it stops and picks up people, who either disappear or occasionally are let off quite a few weeks or months later, normally confused and disorientated.

Stockholm is also household to a haunted station - Kymlinge. This station can be identified on the blue line (Line 11). There is a saying linked to this station "Bara de döda stiger av i Kymlinge" (only the dead get off at Kymlinge). On the other hand, being a city train station, you will not have to be concerned - you will not be stopping there on your train holidays to Europe.

Russia

Dubbed Stalin's 'Railway of Bones', this immense project was meant to run within the Arctic Circle from Salekhard to Igarka. It claimed over 15,000 lives in the course of its period of construction and now lies abandoned and in no way employed but the souls of the dead are mentioned to wander amongst the rusting trains on the deserted internet site, which was forsaken upon the death of Stalin.

England

If your train holidays to Europe consist of a spell in England then you should really be aware that even in the UK there are eerie sightings and hauntings connected with the railway. In Bewdley, for example, along the Severn Valley Railway, a ghostly train is mentioned to haunt the tracks. The train itself is invisible but the sound of its engine can be heard and it leaves a trail of steam in its wake. In Bury St Edmunds people have been reporting the ghostly sighting of a wounded soldier and his nurse lover considering that the Crimean War. The soldier was becoming treated in the hospital exactly where he met and fell in enjoy with a nurse. Her father was against the match and so they produced plans to elope. Unfortunately for them, her father located out and caught up with them at the railway arch in the town and killed him.