THE STATION MASTER’S STORY

A Ghost Story by Ted Cook

All The Answers

Quiz Answers

1. Marilyn Monroe

2. 11

3. Trooping The Colour

4. Boris Johnson’s

5. Lower

6. £10

7. Kanye West

8. Albert Einstein

9. Bilbo Baggins

10. When I’m Sixty-Four (it was Paul McCartney’s 64th birthday)

Spot The Difference

1. Teacher blouse different colour

2. Girl pigtail missing

3. Pencil pot missing relieved to discover that the Guard was breathing and starting to come round.

After some minutes, Mister Weston the Station Master arrived, got out of the car and climbed through the fence alongside the road, making his way towards the Brake van.

As he climbed up onto the brake van the Guard was just getting to his feet.

“I am sorry, I don’t remember a thing after being knocked over and you climbing on board. So who was it you say that stopped the wagons?” the Guard asked.

“It was my man from the station. I have no idea where he is now”

With that the SM set off for his car to get him back to the station and the Guard took his detonators and flags to start protecting his runaway wagons.

Mister Weston arrived back at the station to find there was still no sign of Bill Grainger but the Signalman was relieved to hear the wagons had been stopped and told the SM that there was an engine waiting at the signal box further back down the line to push the runaway wagons into the siding at the station.

Mister Weston had to write out various reports for the Railway.

He was to have the shock of his life when talking to his opposite number further down the line. He reported that it could not be the same Bill Grainger that worked with him until a year ago as his Bill Grainger was never made redundant but was killed trying to stop a runaway train that was eventually stopped after it was diverted into a siding. It was then smashed to pieces by the impact with the buffer stops, killing the Guard and the Porter. Mister Weston described the man he knew as Bill Grainger.

A photo was sent to Mister Weston and as he opened the envelope he sat amazed as the photo of the same Bill Grainger that he had employed stared back at him! How this man could have been the same man as the one who had died a year before, no one could explain! Neither has anyone ever found out what happened to the man that saved the runaway train and the Guard!

It all remains another Railway Mystery!

Donate your old stamps to Kidney Care UK

THE ROYAL MAIL has been introducing new stamps with barcodes which means that as of 31 July, regular stamps that do not have a barcode will no longer be valid.

These can be swapped via the Royal Mail Stamp Swap Out scheme but I wanted to let your readers know that they can also donate them to charity to help raise money for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD); a disease that affects 10% of the population, meaning that as many as 105,349 people are affected in Leicestershire alone.

Every year we receive thousands of stamps, generating around £2,500 to support people with kidney disease when they need it most. If your readers would like to help, all they need to do is to pop their used or unused non-barcoded stamps in an envelope and send them to: Kidney Care UK - Stamps and coins appeal 2023, 3 The Windmills, St Mary’s Close, Alton, GU34 1EF.

Laura Toop, Community Fundraising Manager

4. Picture on display board missing

5. Teacher mouth different

6. Teacher glasses missing

7. Books on table facing opposite way

8. Boy hair different colour

9. Clock on wall missing

10. Dinosaur in book facing opposite way

Crossword Solution

Across: 1 Echo, 3 Document, 9 Caramel, 10 Drier, 11 Passion fruit, 13 Shapes, 15 Eureka, 17 Poet Laureate, 20 Ditto, 21 Pensive, 22 Treasury, 23 Boss. Down: 1 Escapism, 2 Hares, 4 Oblong, 5 Undercurrent, 6 Edifice, 7 Tare, 8 Ambidextrous, 12 Baseless, 14 Apostle, 16 Hamper, 18 Amigo, 19 Adit.

Pictogram Solution

1. Dirt Cheap

2. Bottomless Brunch

3. Long in the Tooth

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