Bowes Railway Museum - Investigation Report

The History Of The Bowes Railway Museum

Bowes Railway (Springwell Line) opened in January 1826 and was planned and laid out by George Stephenson to serve Springwell Colliery which at the time was in the process of being sunk. It was intended that the railway was to work by using a combination of steam and gravity powered inclines.

Stephenson intended to use some of his own patented locomotives to work the flatter sections of the line. The Bowes Line opened a year before Stephenson's famous Stockton & Darlington Line. The Springwell Line did not hit the headlines like it's much publicised contemporary for the simple reason that it was not a public passenger line. The Springwell Line continued to operate in almost the same way until 1974 - a testament to the success of the original concept.

Soon after opening, the line was extended to serve the Mount Moor Colliery. To reach its destination, the line needed to cross an uphill piece of land known as Blackham's Hill. To help the wagons up the hill, a stationary steam engine was sited at the top of the incline to haul them up and lower them down into Springwell Colliery Yard. The line was added to in future years using this principal. Added destinations included Kibblesworth Colliery, Marley Hill as well as others and at the end of the line, Dipton Colliery, the total length of the line was 15 miles. This enabled the collieries to avoid paying the heavy fees charged by the mainline railway companies. The fact that the line led directly to the Jarrow Stathes also gave The Grand Allies (the company which owned the collieries) complete control over the shipping and distribution of their coal.

During the depression in 1932, the company remodelled the line as the Bowes Railway (John Bowes - a powerful name in the North East coal mining trade - was one of the company's major partners) and all its locomotives and rolling stock were painted with their own 'livery'. Money was invested in the company when it became part of the National Coal Board in 1947 and this allowed for some modernisation to take place. In addition to this, Springwell Colliery, which had been closed in the 1930s was reopened. The railway was further extended in 1955, when it was connected to the already existing Pelaw Main Railway which had been running adjacent to it.

During the 1960s the pits began to close and as they shut down one after the other, so the railway line was also cut back to Kibblesworth and later closed altogether in 1974. The site was then taken over by a group of enthusiasts who sought government backing to preserve the railway as a national monument. The result of this is The Bowes Railway Museum - Springwell Workshop Complex and Railway, from Blackfell Bank Head to Springwell, which has now been restored to working standard. Included in the restoration was the section of line served by the Blackham?s Hill hauler house and its rope worked incline system. Work is currently ongoing in different areas of the Complex to restore and preserve as many aspects of the industry as possible so that today?s community can have an insight into how things were done when the mines were in their heyday.

The Paranormal History Of The Bowes Railway Museum

Given the history of an industrial site such as this, you can imagine there have been hundreds of deaths recorded. If there is anywhere that could be haunted you would think this would be it.

There have been numerous incidents experienced by the staff at the museum. What follows are a couple of the reports we have been told.

John, who works at the museum reports that he is not particularly keen on The Blacksmiths - he claims there is an eerie feeling within the location and is glad when the room is locked up on a night. Previous investigators have allegedly run out from this room screaming and upset.

In the main workshop, numerous strange and unexplained noises have been heard by members of the staff.

It is said that a man, wearing a flat cap and possibly dating to the 19th century, has been captured on camera sitting next to one of the trains within the Loco Shed.

The site has 3 Alsation guard dogs and the refuse to upstairs into the Joinery Exhibition Room and are very uncomfortable and skitty within the area.

It is said that all locations have reported activity including reports of footsteps (even during the day) and a strong smell of what is described as soap. There are also reports of items constantly being moved around the workshop.

Bowes Railway Museum - Baseline Report

Before every investigation we conduct a thorough examination of the location site to highlight anything within the environment which may interfere or influence with any later investigation through the night. For instance, if there is a railway line nearby which, with the passing of trains throught the night, could cause virbrations in within the location - we'll make sure it's noted down

We also take readings throughout the investigation site (see actual locations) so as to set a baseline which all further readings can be compared againt. At present, we currenly take readings concerning the Temperature, Humidity and of the local Electro-Magnetic Field.

Information Regarding The Bowes Railway Museum Investigation

What follows is some general information regarding the investigation at The Bowes Railway Museum.

Possible Environmental Influences At The Bowes Railway Museum

Bowes Railway Museum - Main Workshop

This large L-Shaped room consisted of two main sections : The Fitting Shop and The Engineering Shop. As the two areas were open plan, we considered this location as one.

The location itself consisted of various machinery such as lathes and other machines used in the construction or repair work for the railway including the repair of locomotives and wheel turning.

One piece of machinary in this room did interfere with the EMF readings that were taken at the beginning of the night and the pollution levels (both outside noise and dust) were quite high.

Baseline Report

Environment Readings

No baseline readings were taken in this location

Pre-Investigation Walkaround

Before any investigation starts some members of Northern Ghost Investigations including our own resident medium (or guest mediums if present) like to have a walk around the investigation site and then record their own first impressions. What follows are details of the first impressions of those who did do a walk around.

Medium Walkaround With Guest Medium Eddie Nicol

Eddie entered the Main Workshop and picked up on two spirits.

One, according Eddie, was eager to tell his story and we may encounter activity from him during the night. Eddie added that this spirit, possibly called Harold was a proud and caring man who liked to share his stories with anyone prepared to listen.

But as we head back down the shop, Eddie sensed another spirit was not happy about something and may be trying to disorientate the other spirit. The name Peter came to Eddie?s mind, as did David though he could not give any more detail on these two names. There did seem to be a change of atmosphere to the room as we walked through it from calm and relaxed to 'chilly'.

Group Vigils

What follows are the group vigils that took place in this location.

Note : These vigils are presented purely in Group Order and in no way reflect the order
 in which each group visited the location during the night.

Group 1

NGIers - Jay, Claire

Guests - Joanne, Paul, Heidi, Steve, Carol

The main workshop was our first location of the night and given the size of the place, we all spread out and for five minutes or so, let the place settle.

One of the first things reported was by Jay who was walking up and down the length of the workshop. He said that it felt as though he was swaying from side to side as he walked. Before Jay mentioned this Paul, who was walking just a few steps in front at the time, seemed to lose his balance and needed a little fancy footwork to right himself. When Jay then mentioned the swaying - Paul confirmed that that was just what had happened. Eddie, who was with us at the time, tuned into the spirit of an old man who was shuffling backwards and forwards and who seemed to be nudging people out of the way as he walked.

Joanne then mentioned with a start that something had just stroked her hair. There wasn't anybody nearby when this happened and nothing was hanging from the roof - Eddie attempted to encourage Joanne to reach out with her own mind to attempt to make contact with any spirits and met with mixed results.

Jay began to call out and although there was no direct response to any requests made, there were a couple of interests of note. Firstly, whilst stood near to a small boat that looked to be being worked upon within the workshop there was a loudish bang on its side. Although a few people were stood by only a few of them heard the bang and all claimed they were not responsible. While investigating the boat, Jay said that he thought he heard a rasping breath which again, was confirmed by a couple of others who were near to the boat. Eddie had earlier mentioned in regards to the old shuffling man that he was riddled with lung disease, possible cancer.

Secondly, while all of the group was standing around quietly chatting, a voice was heard near to the entrance of the workshop. Jay asked out loud if anyone was there but got no response. The voice could have been the voice from another group in the Joinery, but Jay went to investigate regardless. Upon turning the corner to the main entrance, Jay claimed he could see a shimmering near the doorway.

Claire and Pual stood by his side and the three began to look more closely. Paul commented that he could see something but nothing concrete. It was at this point Paul showed a reddish light he'd caught on his video recorder that seemingly appeared and disappeared in an area of the workshop were no lights were present.

Steve and Heidi had spent their time in the workshop at the upper end sitting quietly and trying to tune into any spirits.

Heidi picked up on an elderly man wearing a flat cap, who was also involved with very tall horses (same guy as Eddie?). She felt he was struggling to work due to ill-health. She felt back pain from this man who she felt was stooped over a lot pushing a cart.

Steve took a seat at the end of the workshop and opened himself up to whatever was present. After about 5 minutes or so, the temperature around him began to drop and he sensed movement to his right. He was then made aware of quite a slim rough man old in years suffering with breathing problems, it was at that point Eddie came and sat next to him and confirmed that this gentleman was indeed moving around to his right.

Steve picked up on the name Walter and had only told Heidi the name when Eddie himself came up the name also in regards of this man - it would seem that 3 different people had picked up on the same spirit and all seperately.

Group 2

NGIers - Carl, Sharon

Guests - Pauline, Bekki, Paul, Lee, Jonny

We proceeded to the back of the room first and started to call out, one of the guests felt his back get really warm even though the temperature had dropped to 9 degrees and the humidity had risen to 69%.

We spent about 15 minutes in that area as we weren't really getting anything and were seeing lights further down so moved. Carl set up the light stick in front of the video camera and asked any spirits present to move it and left it unattended while we concentrated on a different part of the room.

We saw lights and some movement in this area and two of the guests got some impressive orb photos on their cameras. We also got an orb on Carl?s jacket.

We took more photos around where the activity was, but was unable to catch any more paranormal activity and it was time to move to the next location.

Between locations, while we were in the Base Room, Carl commented on pain he had in his right knee.

Group 3

NGIers - Lee, Wayne

Guests - Viv, Paula, Vicky, Leigh

By now our group felt a little disappointed. This was exaggerated when another group said they?d experienced loads of activity in the Blacksmiths such as stone throwing and noises. But I suppose that is the luck of the draw. Vicky had left for home so now there was five of us.

I hoped something would occur in the workshop. Earlier in the night I had sensed a change in the atmosphere. After Eddie said that the spirit in here was eager to tell his story I did hope something would happen.

Wayne and I duly called out for a response or reaction. I asked the guests if they?d like to try the pendulums. Wayne and the three guests tried to get the pendulums to work. I explained about how pendulums need to be programmed by the user and all three guests tried this approach. Wayne had minor (no pun intended) success with his though nothing beneficial came through. The guests got nothing from their attempts.

Time crawled slowly on. We took photos and wandered about the room in anticipation of anything happening for us but we all felt the room was empty. We persevered the cold and listened to the wind for half an hour then decided to call an end to this location. A cup of tea was more appealing than waiting another 15 minutes. With this in mind, they headed back to base.

I hung back to be alone in the large workshop. It was not too dark and I could see practically the whole length of the room. I willed and wished for something to happen. I took photos and video footage in the hope of any activity occurring. But it was a wasted five minutes so I joined my group back at base.

Group 4

NGIers - Kris, Sue

Guests - Kirk, Teresa, Jennifer, Stuart

This was the last of our locations, our group walked into the location and walked from one end of the building to another. While walking through Kris sensed that there were male spirits watching them. He said that it felt a very male orientated room and that females weren't welcome. The guests agreed with this too. With this we decided to leave the women with Sue at one end of the building while the men walked round.

We were hoping that something might happen to the women but sadly we didn?t here them scream or anything. The women then decided to walk round the building and the men stayed where they were, once again we sadly didn?t hear the women scream.

After a bit of calling out we decided to call it a night as nothing was happening, we were still buzzing from the blacksmiths where we had the stones thrown at us.

On the way back to the door we called out and said if there was anyone there to let us know, not long after a stone was thrown!!!! Here we go again we all thought, we picked up the stone and checked it, once again it was a lot warmer than all the other stones around the ground.

We called out again and asked for it to happen again but nothing did, so we decided to carry on to the door, then all of a sudden another stone was thrown, this was a spirit who wanted to play or try to make us run out of the building. Well we didn't run out of the building we stood our ground and asked for it to happen again, once again nothing so we walked again and one after another 2 stones were thrown. After a few more calls asking for it to happen again and a lot of searching round to see if any human was trying to have a laugh we came to the conclusion that the spirits here didn't want to show themselves to us but wanted to play with us by throwing stones??

Bowes Railway Museum - The Joinery

Part of the once common style of colliery courtyard complexes, the group of stone buildings are believed to date from the opening of the railway in 1826. It is believed that the two storey joiners shop started life as a single storey building. Large materials cut within this building were taken into the courtyard for assembly. The upper floor was used as a store for fodder for both the pit ponies and horses that at one time shunted the colliery.

The lower floor contains a variety of woodworking machinery, which is still used. The upper floor today serves as the railway exhibition room and archive. However since preservation it was used as a stores when the railway had a job creation scheme run by the Manpower Services Commission (MSC). The upper floor was also for a time the home of the Washington Model Railway Club.

Baseline Report

Environment Readings

No baseline readings were taken in this location

Pre-Investigation Walkaround

Before any investigation starts some members of Northern Ghost Investigations including our own resident medium (or guest mediums if present) like to have a walk around the investigation site and then record their own first impressions. What follows are details of the first impressions of those who did do a walk around.

Medium Walkaround With Guest Medium Eddie Nicol

In the Joinery Eddie sensed 3 spirits. 1 male was frail and may have chest/breathing problems. Upstairs the other two appeared to him as though one was a youthful male of around 21-25 years old and seemed full of excitement. The third spirit seemed mischievous but Eddie could not determine the sex? Eddie said he felt, 'fuzziness' in his head.

Group Vigils

What follows are the group vigils that took place in this location.

Note : These vigils are presented purely in Group Order and in no way reflect the order
 in which each group visited the location during the night.

Group 1

NGIers - Jay, Claire

Guests - Joanne, Paul, Heidi, Steve, Carol

On a previous visit to Bowes Railway, this location had proven to be one of the most exciting locations as each group had reported objects being thrown, specifically in Jays case a hand-sized lump of wood.

It wasn't long before a strange thing began happenings again. After a few minutes of letting the location settle, the walkie talkie in Jays pocket suddenly burst into life with static just shortly after he began calling out.

He took it out of his pocket and placed it on a nearby bench so he wasn't touching it and it continued to spurt out static as Jay talked. Claire - who was on the video camera filming events - claimed that as Jay was talking to any spirit that may have been present and who may be affecting the walkie talkie he was being bombarded with Orbs which were buzzing around him (see photos on the right of an early picture before Jay put the walkie talkie down).

Claire suggested that Jay ask the spirit effecting the walkie talkie to stop to check if it would. The radio had been constantly giving off static for 2 or 3 minutes at this point and within 5 seconds of Jay making the request for it to stop .. it stopped.

Steve had picked up on the spirit of a young man in the joinery who he got the name Michael for. Michael had been picked up on the previous visit to Bowes and the Joinery by the NGI medium on the night. Steve claimed that the young man had been killed on the site in an accident and his body had been laid out in the joinery and was frustrated that he'd been trapped in there as ' .. he didn't belong there .. ".

We went upstairs into the old hayloft and got ourselves into a small circle and began a couple of energy raising excercises before calling out again. Jay had placed the radio on a nearby display cabinet and it wasn't long before the it spurted into action again - albeit only for short 30 second bursts.

It was during one of these bursts that a male voice was heard from the radio. Sadly, we couldn't make out the words but upon checking with the other groups in Bowes that night - nobody had been using the radios and so we could rule out any other NGI member making a call. Carol also reported at this time and it was visually confirmed that her torch was drained of power despite new batteries only being placed within that night. It certainly seemed as though something was messing with the electrics in the Joinery.

The incidents with the radio could have just been picking up on a stray signal but its strange that it only happenned in the joinery / hayloft (and did briefly again when we held a seance in there later) and no other group was transmitting at the time.

Jay got a sense that in one of the corners of the hayloft that there was a presence. At one point, during a torch passing nearby, he swore he saw a man standing there but the image was gone as soon as the torchlight moved elsewhere. Steve confirmed that he felt there was a man in the corner who seemed to be rushing out from the corner at us before moving back to hide away.

Group 2

NGIers - Carl, Sharon

Guests - Pauline, Bekki, Paul, Lee, Jonny

Our first location was the Joinery - Humidity 71% Temperature 7.9 degrees. 30 seconds later Carl heard a noise and looked at the temperature gauge again - humidity 74% temperature7.9 degrees.

A light stick was placed close to the Ouija board and took a picture to determine the position. We settled into the dark and took several photos and started the video camera.

After a few minutes Carl and Sharon started to call out, they didn't get much downstairs so decided to go upstairs. After some noises at the other end of the room and one of the guests feeling like she was being pulled backwards by something wrapped around her neck, Sharon started to use her pendulum, asking some of the guests to try to use the spare ones we had.

The guests didn?t get much response from their pendulums, but Sharon got a positive reaction from hers, asking the spirit to identify itself. He was in his 20?s and worked at the railway station, he died there, being attacked from behind which seemed to correspond with what the female guest felt.

Carl and a guest proceeded downstairs after they thought they heard something being thrown but found nothing. While we were looking back at the photos taken during the night we noticed the light stick had been moved, but we couldn't be 100% sure it was paranormal.

Group 3

NGIers - Lee, Wayne

Guests - Viv, Paula, Vicky, Leigh

The final location of the night was the joinery. We?d been through here a number of times to reach other places. Now it was our turn to remain.

We started upstairs by taking photos of the empty room. I suggested we try the Ouija Board again. After the random smattering of letters from the previous attempt, I didn't have much faith in anything better occurring here. But we tried it and I was right. Nothing happened at all.

We tried calling out. We waited patiently and called again. I wandered about the room and stood in all four darkened corners. I?d heard earlier in the night that someone had sensed an entity in one of them. I sensed nothing and presumed that whatever was here had had enough of us invading its space and so left us to get on with it.

It seemed like there was no point to continue in this location. The group ?spirit? had lost its enthusiasm. We all went down stairs. Called out briefly then headed back to base. On route, for a bit of rebellious excitement, we all headed over to the out of bounds wagon shop but the cold wind and precarious, uneven, soft ground made the excursion less appealing. The group headed back while I took a few more photos.

The battery on the camera and camcorder was flashing low. This was my signal that the night was over and it was time to pack everything away. I sat alone in the base, my group?s guests had left for home and Wayne had joined another group. Ten minutes later and everyone else returned back to base full of joy and excitement as they relayed their paranormal events.

Group 4

NGIers - Kris, Sue

Guests - Kirk, Teresa, Jennifer, Stuart

We were here after the seance which had been very interesting. one of our guests, Teresa, didn't like a corner, she felt like there was something there, Eddie turned to her and said 'lets go there then', Kris in true fashion was off like a shot to the corner before Eddie had finished speaking, unfortunately Teresa couldn't make it all the way and burst into tears - no shame in that it was the spirit doing it as far as we were concerned, well Kris then decided to go right into the corner faced into it, in front of Kris was an old trolley (possibly for moving large heavy items in them days) he could feel that there was a man there who didn't like women, Eddie asked Kris what he felt, so Kris told him and Eddie said ?ask him why?, Kris then felt it was a case of because of his mum, it felt like she had not been that nice to him, so he had a hatred of women.

Kris carried on standing there staring into the corner with his hands on the trolley, he told the male spirit he was a coward for trying to scare women and all of a sudden the trolley wobbled and it felt to Kris like he had lunged at him, well Kris don't scare easy (or maybe he is just stupid) so he just stood there.

Every now and then this feeling of being rushed at would come over Kris and the trolley would wobble in his hands. Kris was well chuffed with this as this is what we were after, he knew it wasn't him wobbling the trolley. In the end Kris said that if the male spirit wanted Kris to get out of the spirits space and away from the corner then he would have to show himself to Kris.

Kris stood there and said that he did see a shadow taller than him appear, so true to his word he thank the male spirit and walked out of the corner. The only picture Kris got in his head while he was in the corner was of a male figure in a blue uniform of sorts with a blue porter style hat on. He also had a mustache.

Bowes Railway Museum - The Blacksmiths

A room attached to the end of the Exhibition Room which served as a blacksmiths.

Various metal-working equipment - including a small forge - could be found in this location and in the far corner of the room was a small bathroom area.

The three locations in this section (Exhibition Room, Loco Shed and Blacksmiths) where possibly all open plan in the past, but wall separators have been installed although the roof area is still open meaning sound could travel between the three locations.

Baseline Report

Environment Readings

No baseline readings were taken in this location

Pre-Investigation Walkaround

Before any investigation starts some members of Northern Ghost Investigations including our own resident medium (or guest mediums if present) like to have a walk around the investigation site and then record their own first impressions. What follows are details of the first impressions of those who did do a walk around.

Medium Walkaround With Guest Medium Eddie Nicol

Although Eddie said that this location had a nice feeling about it, he quickly added that there was something mischievous and disruptive standing back.

One of the guests stated that she felt dizzy on entering the room and Eddie suggested it could be due to the energy that the ?multiple? spirits in this location alone were creating.

Eddie ended the walk-a-round tour with the possibility that a vortex was in the centre of this room and out of all of the locations we?d visited; this one was likely to be the most active

Group Vigils

What follows are the group vigils that took place in this location.

Note : These vigils are presented purely in Group Order and in no way reflect the order
 in which each group visited the location during the night.

Group 1

NGIers - Jay, Claire

Guests - Joanne, Paul, Heidi, Steve, Carol

The Blacksmiths is the location with the reputation within Bowes Railway and Jay specifically was looking forward to getting back in there after an incident during the previous NGI investigation at Bowes.

Sadly, the time spent here this time around was quiet. Other than a few strange flashes of light that seemed to get us excited at one point - which, after a while, we figured were camera flashes from another group although they were in appearing in one particular place upon the roof of the blacksmiths, there wasn't much more to report.

Claire and Heidi picked up on a different change of atmosphere within the small attached office although this could have been psychological as it was pitched black within.

There was only one slight moment that was reminiscent of previous visits. At one point, the atmosphere within the Blacksmiths changed dramatically. Jay had mentioned that when the spirit associated with Blacksmiths shows up, people tend to know about it, and during a slight lull in the calling out, a few people noted that the atmosphere had got heavier. Jay commented that he got the heebie-jeebies - which is how he describes when something has just turned up - all the hairs stand on hand, heart starts to beat faster, breathing rate increases etc. Although not sensitive to things as a medium - this sensation to Jay usually heralds the arrival of a spirit in a location. Despite attempting to communicate with whatever had showed up, there was nothing in a way of response and so whatever had paid us a visit had quickly moved on.

Group 2

NGIers - Carl, Sharon

Guests - Pauline, Bekki, Paul, Lee, Jonny

For the last location for the evening we were joined by Eddie, our team medium for the night.

We were close to the room where we communicated with Michael earlier so tried to talk to him again. Sharon got her pendulum out and asked Michael if he was with us again, he was, Eddie said he enjoyed being with us as he had made a connection with us, the pendulum started moving when asked. After a few minutes it started spinning quite fast and it seemed to react to questions and Sharon managed to get it to actually stop completely.

We saw a few orbs and flashing lights which we initially thought were flashes from the cameras of the group in the other room, but figured out that some were and some were unexplainable for now.

Bowes was the most active location for Carl and Sharon, all the guests enjoyed themselves and became involved in all the activities to communicate with the paranormal. This was the first time Sharon had used a pendulum while running a group of guests and got a good reaction.

Group 3

NGIers - Lee, Wayne

Guests - Viv, Paula, Vicky, Leigh

The loco shed was interesting in that it had trains from various mines that had witnessed death. One of the trains is believed to have killed a man as it coursed down the track.

Eddie and Greig joined Wayne, the group and myself on this occasion. Wayne began by calling out to any spirits who may have taken the time to be here on what was a cold and windy night.

Wayne said he had the name, Patrick, in his mind. Eddie followed with the name, Colin. Wayne added that he felt pins and needles in his legs.

We wandered about in the dark, to look at the trains and take photos. Paula said that she felt drawn to a small room that housed a model railway ? but we did not have access to this room.

Eddie said that he had the feeling of a weight pressing down on his shoulders. Earlier in the evening Eddie made a point of saying that spirits tend to reflect their emotions and feelings on to people in order to reveal how they feel or how they died. This information proved useful for Wayne as he sensed pain in the back of his head when he sat in the driver?s seat on one of the trains. Wayne described it as a blow to the head as if the train itself caused this sensation ? was this the train that killed the minor? Eddie suggested that this man sensed his impending death but had not been aware of the train that ran into him. Wayne added that this man was called, Colin and that he now had pain in his chest.

Wayne then used his pendulum to try and communicate with 'Colin'. Apparently Colin had unfinished business and was frustrated his time was cut short before he could complete it. When Wayne tried to determine what this was there was difficulty in finalizing an answer. Eddie felt it was sport related.

What did the loco shed give us?

Wayne got the name Patrick, had pins and needles and chest pain. He also felt pain in the back of his head. Eddie got the name Colin. Paula was drawn to the model train room. I got colder and more frustrated. That was location number two done. I felt that so far nothing had happened that could be considered paranormal other that what other group members experienced for themselves.

We headed back to the base to discuss our next event.

Group 4

NGIers - Kris, Sue

Guests - Kirk, Teresa, Jennifer, Stuart

Boy did it all kick off in here! We walked into the room, again tried to let the place settle and sit quietly, no chance of that, with in minutes of being in the room we all heard what sounded like a stone being thrown, we looked about in torch light for the stone, Kris picked it up and said ?feel that its warm?, we did and it was very warm.

Kris then picked up a few other stones that were around and all these were freezing cold : 'how was that possible'? we all thought as the whole building was freezing cold, we checked the roof for any holes etc (even if it had fell it wouldn't have been hot). We thought it very strange.

So we then started to call out to spirit asking if that was them, throw another stone please to confirm it, they didn?t just throw one more but about 8 more, every time we asked we got a stone!! We decided then that this spirit wanted to play the game so we tried using the Ouija board for communication, but no luck with that. Sue felt like this spirit was trying to chase us out of there and did not want to communicate with us at all, it was his personal space and he wanted us out?

Bowes Railway Museum - The Loco Shed

This is a 1930s built brick building incorporating as a party wall one of the stone tub shop walls. Equipped with a pit and a travelling crane this is the area where locomotives were repaired. The shed road is also equipped with shear-legs for locomotive lifts.

This shed carries on the same function today with the repair and housing of some of the locomotives on the railway. Two locomotives were housed in the shed when we visited.

There was evidence of dust that rose from The Pit which could interfere with any photographs that were taken.

The three locations in this section (Exhibition Room, Loco Shed and Blacksmiths) where possibly all open plan in the past, but wall separators have been installed although the roof area is still open meaning sound could travel between the three locations.

Baseline Report

Note : These vigils are presented purely in Group Order and in no way reflect the order
 in which each group visited the location during the night.

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