My husband and I are going on a ghost train ride. Not one of those funfair rides that last a few minutes. It’s an hour on a steam train on the Poppy Line – a special Halloween ride through the North Norfolk countryside – and I am so looking forward to it. I will try to take some photographs to post on Saturday morning.
In fact, they have a had a whole Halloween week over half term, with treats and spooky tricks, ghouls and ghosts, as well as a Ghostly Grotto at Weybourne Station, the haunt of witches, warlocks and spiders.
Tomorrow night at eight, the train will depart on a journey into darkness, surrounded by ghostly happenings up and down the line. So I have written a Ghost Train tanka:
Ghost Train
Ghostly whistle blows
Steam hisses from the funnel
Our excitement grows
As we enter a tunnel
Fellow travellers vanish
writing in north norfolk 