It should not have happened on a day such as this<\/p>\n
As it was a hot summers evening<\/p>\n
But I was working the late shift at Sefton station<\/p>\n
Which was by now quiet after a busy day<\/p>\n
There were three more trains each running on the hour<\/p>\n
I was in my office when I saw a figure not far from the out of hours exit<\/p>\n
It appeared to be that of a women in a white coat<\/p>\n
I watched her for a while as her behaviour seemed curious<\/p>\n
This was part of our training to be able to identify potential suicides<\/p>\n
The London bound express was due shortly so I made my way across the footbridge<\/p>\n
I was able to see the woman as I walked towards the far platform<\/p>\n
Apart from when I descended the stairs of the footbridge<\/p>\n
It was as I turned towards the woman in the white coat<\/p>\n
That I saw that there was just no one there<\/p>\n
The platform was completely empty<\/p>\n
I made a complete search of the area before the express was due<\/p>\n
There was nothing to be found and the train passed without incident<\/p>\n
The whole episode puzzled me and when I was able to I ran the closed circuit tapes<\/p>\n
And it was then that I witnessed something so horrible that I jumped from my seat<\/p>\n
The woman who had her back to the camera suddenly turned around and looked up<\/p>\n
I was expecting to see her face but where her face should have been there was a vacancy<\/p>\n
There were no features just an area as flat as the grey concrete platform<\/p>\n
I must say that once I got over the shock I nervously returned to the far platform which was empty<\/p>\n
Usually an incident such as this would be reported but I did not to be seen to be drunk or the like<\/p>\n
And what was even more chilling was that when I watched the tape again she was not there<\/p>\n
In a way I put the incident down to fatigue as I had just become a father as was quite tired<\/p>\n
Some months passed and one sleepless night I found myself on baby duty as I was off next day<\/p>\n
To pass the time I read a history of the local area and found an account if the Sefton Curve train crash in July 1958<\/p>\n
The London bound express had derailed at low speed on the curve because of a broken rail<\/p>\n
There had been a number of injuries but only one fatality a twenty-five year old woman named Jenny Jones<\/p>\n
An eyewitness account noted that she had been thrown on to the track and her features had been obliterated<\/p>\n
The poor womans white coat was reported to have been surprisingly pristine considering the trauma<\/p>\n
As a footnote there was never any clear explanation as to why Jenny had been on the train in the first place<\/p>\n
She had worked in a hat shop in Norwich and there had been no reason for her to travel to London that evening<\/p>\n
Nobody came forward not a boyfriend or a lover nobody at all gave an explanation<\/p>\n
Jenny Jones was just an ordinary girl with a passion for white coats as she thought that they suited her raven hair<\/p>\n
The next time I was on duty I placed a bunch of red roses in front of the disused signal cabin<\/p>\n
To date I have not seen Jenny Jones reappear but there are reports of a womans scream being heard on warm summer nights in the vicinity of the Sefton Curve<\/p>\n
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