Shadows in the Steam by David Brandon

Author:David Brandon [David Brandon and Alan Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752462301
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2010-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

WEST MIDLANDS

Coventry

The first regular trains through Coventry ran on the Rugby to Birmingham section of the London & Birmingham Railway in 1838. Later on all the lines that served the city came under the control of the London & North Western Railway. This company therefore enjoyed a virtual monopoly of Coventry although they had been forced grudgingly to accept the arch-rival Midland Railway having running powers over the line from Nuneaton.

The busy Warwick Road runs on a large bridge over the western end of Coventry Station, and round this area there used to be extensive sidings and associated goods sheds, offices and other buildings. One of the buildings in this area had the reputation of being haunted. After being sold out of railway use, this building found new life as a recording studio, and it was reckoned to contain not just one but two ghosts. One was the spirit of a railwayman who has the habit of turning lights on and off unwontedly, and opening and closing doors and windows, casting a rather frightening shadow of a man’s head and also invisibly brushing past staff and visitors to the studio. There is no actual evidence of who he was, but his presence in this particular building has led to the suggestion that he must have been a railwayman. The second ghost is that of a young man associated with the recording studio who died as the result of injudiciously mixing drink and drugs. This ghost was thought to tamper with the sophisticated electrical equipment in the studio with the result that very odd extraneous noises would be heard on some recordings. Between them the two ghosts were able on occasion to produce a distinctly unpleasant atmosphere, and several eminent figures from the world of pop music have commented that they do not like working in the studio because they have felt threatened by a presence or, should we say, two presences.

Coventry Station looking northwards. The Warwick Road Bridge crosses the end of the station in the distance.

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