Haunted Stations - Garston Dock (Episode 2) Tale Of Screeching Ginny!

The station opened on 1st July 1852 as the western terminal of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway and closed 16th June 1947. The Tale of Screeching Ginny - On 15th November 1959, a group of children were playing near the railway at Garston Dock Station. All of sudden, an ugly witch appeared and chased them, flying after them and screeching at the top of her voice. On St Mary's Road she gave up the chase, but the children kept running. A local boy, aged 10, ran down Russell Road to where his gran was waiting for him. He told his gran about the witch. She told him it was Screeching Ginny. According to local folklore, Ginny was from a strange family who people thought were witches. They had moved to a house in Cressington. It was said that people who didn`t like the family died in strange circumstances. Ginny had fallen in love with a local boy, and put a spell on him to make him love her, but this was broken by her mother. The boy got engaged to someone else and Ginny was heartbroken. She followed him and his sweetheart to the station, where she ran screeching onto the tracks and was hit by a train.Her ghost is said to still haunt Garston Dock Station even after it closed in the 1940s. ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THE HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL RAILWAYS ALIVE AND SHARE WITH THE WORLD, FEEL FREE TO HELP SUPPORT OLD LIVERPOOL RAILWAYS WITH A DONATION www.paypal.com... AND DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW ON TWITTER! / orailways AND VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE oldliverpoolra...