so it's a Friday evening you know when
you do typical end of the week things
such as go out for a meal have a drink
with a friend or perhaps see a film at
the cinema or in my case go go strain an
ting so we're here at Lewis and I just
want to change to get on the Seaford
branch and down to New Haven Harbor and
as you can see from the map New Haven
Harbor is their new haven town is there
but what isn't on the map is New Haven
marine station which apparently is still
open but yet it's not on the map it used
to be on the map way back in the 1970s
when regular trains ran to meet up with
the boats between New Haven and Dieppe
in France services were then slowly
withdrawn over the years right down to
today when rumor has it that there's a
daily ghost train service that still
runs so we got off at New Haven Harbor
and had a look around so this is New
Haven Harbor and we can see from the
tracks that normally trains leaving will
go via the left but it's that little
branch off to the right which we're
interested in
fairies do still run from New Haven but
the ferry terminal next to New Haven
marine station is now abandoned there's
a newer terminal back up near a New
Haven town station so why is the station
still here we found a poster that maybe
helped to explain things there's a sign
on the wall the old station sign it
supposed to hear for the safety of our
passengers no train services are
currently in operation from the station
for passengers with a valid rail ticket
intending to travel on their 1852 to
Lewis weekday service we will provide a
replacement taxi at no additional cost
in place of the scheduled train service
so it claims that no train services now
run from this station the station that
you can't get into now anyway as it's
behind a fence well this is the station
I can't obviously get in this fence is
in the way the poster says that there is
a 1852 service but I've actually heard
that about Court past eight a train
comes in to the station and then goes
out again I'm not sure why they do that
New Haven Marine is derelict abandoned
and in decay with a few relics in the
past still lying about and it's been
like this since 2006 the old sign still
here it's his health platform
temporarily closed for repair um
seems like has been closed more than
temporarily we pop that back up there so
people can see this
we decided that we needed more
information so we called the number that
was on the poster to see if they knew of
any trains that ran from this station
hello there and I just wanted you to
give me some information about train
times from New Haven Marine Station New
Haven marine station that's okay
um into London Victoria
it might just ask you to change over us
you have in Harbor anyway that's odd I
wonder whether there's any direct types
of brain in your heaven harbour or ask
me a second I'll just have to have a
quick look into that okay thank you I
don't think there are any direct trains
going from Marina when it we're we're
right by what we think is New Haven
marine and as opposed to say sort of to
call you for it's like okay so if I take
a picture and then sort of keep my
receipt make sure that we know what
happens and then hopefully arrange for
the replacement actually given that it
seems as though we've okay so you say as
long as I've got some evidence that
that's what the poster says I could
claim claim the money for a taxi back so
the nice man on the phone had never
heard of this before and advised us to
take a photo we could get a taxi to New
Haven Harbor station if we wanted but
that seemed ridiculous as it was only a
very short walk away but how short we
decided to time it so we're standing at
New Haven marine and I'm going to see
how long it takes to walk to new -
Thomas Oh
I can tell you now that it doesn't take
very long at all to walk between the two
stations but that won't stop us from
speeding up this part of a video to make
it go even quicker don't worry though
I can assure you that we didn't cheat on
the timing of it at all okay so stop the
clock one minute 34 seconds now it was
at this point that something quite
exciting happened I was still looking at
the timer on the phone when my cameraman
Jeff realized that the train pulling in
here in the background wasn't stopping
because it was the ghost train and this
is the ghost train which is going to go
into new hub new haven marine so we're
going to follow it and see what happens
if it's the go station we have no idea
where it comes from
there's no passengers on it but it's
just pulled in to New Haven marine and
it's just sitting there at the platform
that's really weird that's kind of
spooky you can see the driver is just
getting in this and obviously to pull
out shortly it's just thick it's not
doing anything
it's like the perfect description isn't
a ghost train there's no one on it it
had arrived at just after 8 o'clock sat
for just 10 minutes until at a quarter
past eight the signal one in the
old-fashioned signal box pulled the
lever raised the semaphore signal and
sent the ghost train back on its way
so there is a train from New Haven
marine station it's just that you can't
get on it you'll need to take the long
walk to New Haven Harbor instead and
catch the servicemen there this is Vicky
pipe ghost train hunting in New Haven