South London's haunted tube stations

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South London's haunted tube stations

Friday, 31 October 2008

Elephant & Castle tube

HORROR lovers out celebrating Hallowe’en should be careful they don’t bump into any real ghosts in one of South London’s four haunted Tube stations.

A new book called Haunted London Underground, by David Brandon and Alan Brooke, charts the ghosts and ghouls that people claim to have seen on the Underground.

It says the stretch of Northern line between Stockwell and Oval stations is haunted by the apparition of a track-worker killed by a train in the 1950s.

When the Victoria line was being built in the 1960s, workers reported seeing a mysterious 7ft tall man wearing brown overalls and a cloth cap at Vauxhall.

And staff at Elephant & Castle station claim to have heard someone running towards them at high speed when the station is closed – although no one can be seen.

At Kennington, Tube drivers have reported seeing strange figures on a deserted stretch of track called “the loop” where trains turn around, even though passengers never travel in the carriages.