Fear on the Phantom Special

Halloween 1861.

A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Lighting inside the carriages is poor and without warning; the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage; plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey; the passengers pour out on to the station platform. There are almost 60 of them in all; laughing and jostling. The prevailing excitement is shattered by a cry– a dead body has been discovered in the seats. This will prove to be a very puzzling new case for the Railway Detective.