Manchester Haunted

Rothley station has become famous for its reputation of ghosts that haunt the station. Rothley originally open on 15 March 1899 when the Great Central Railway was built. The railway ran passenger trains and freight from London Marylebone up to sheffield.  the Great Central Railway also included plans for the channel tunnel with the intention of running conninental trains through the UK and even built larger bridges to accomadate this.

In 1948 all railways including the Great Central Railway were nationalised and became British Railways. The line first of all belonged to eastern region until it became the London Midland region later on. During this time there was an increase amount of traffic and at the same time the M1 opened in the 1960s the route of the Great Central Railway was used in less favour of the Midland Mainline (now known as East Midlands Trains).

Local stations closed in 1963, with direct services to London ending in 1966, and the route saw passenger services withdrawn and the line closed in 1969.

The stations and their facilities became derelict and volunteers set about trying to restore the Great  Central Railway between Leicester and Nottingham. So far we have managed to restore from Birstall and Belgrave (now known as Leicester North)  through to Loughborough and a section north of Loughborough to Ruddington. Rothley station is now restored to what it looked like in 1912 and has reopened in 1975. Rothley station has a parcels office, booking office, waiting room and a refreshment room, all complete with original working gas lamps.

People started reporting strange things at Rothely station, even from the time it was being built! We have had visitors saying they have seen strange things, staff saying reporting things have moved of there own accord, hearing voices when nobody was at the station and seeing things that cannot be explained!

Craig has been investigating the paranormal at Rothley station for about 3 years. There has been a number of investigators who bring their groups along to spend the night at the station with Craig, and have always had plenty of activity! including glass movements from a seance, communicating with ouija boards, noises replying from calling out! The groups  have picked up on spirits and found out who they are and how they died, including a child who died by a tragic accident and broke hes neck, a platelayer killed on the track, and a spirit of a signalman who got killed by being hit by a train as he crossed the mainline.

£10 per team member