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Post by sm on Apr 2, 2007 15:11:06 GMT
I was watching the Ghost's on the Underground doco, and it mentioned a ghost at South Island Place, near Stockwell station... I was wondering if anyone knows what it is? I can't find any mention of it on the web
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Post by CSLR on Apr 2, 2007 15:32:06 GMT
It is a step-plate junction between Stockwell and Oval stations and beneath South Island Place -from which it takes its name. There was a crossover here that was used during the reconstruction in the 1920s.
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Post by sm on Apr 2, 2007 16:25:31 GMT
cheers!
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Post by mowat on Apr 13, 2007 12:52:13 GMT
I saw a Ghost's on the Underground doco a few months ago, and it had a bit about South Island Place. A now senior manager was taking a track walk down that part of the line around 10/15 years ago, and came to a larger section of tunnel. He saw an old man working on the track, and to his surprise he was using an old tilly (oil) lamp. He approched the man and asked him what this place was, and he told him it was called South Island Place. He then asked the man why he was using a tilly lamp, and the man mutterd somthing about prefering it to those new fangled electric torches. When he reached Stockwell he told the forman about the man he had just seen at South Island Place (thinking to impress him with his knowing the name) the forman told him that no workman should be working there that night, and ordered a serch of the tunnels. They serched that section twice and delayed the start of service untill it was clear that there was no one down there. The manager got a beasting for telling porkys and delaying the start of traffic, however later he found out that in the 1950's a track worker was killed at South Island Place after being hit by a train. The compresser he was working on drowned out the sound of the approching train.
[glow=red,2,300]THE DRIVER REPORTED SEEING THE LIGHT FROM A TILLY LAMP[/glow]
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