A lone car had to stop at the rail crossing

as heavy gates closed.

Bells rang and lights flashed on and off

she sat waiting to get home.

In the distance down the single track

it passed a rail side shack!

Anxiously thinking why such a long wait

then Annie felt the vibration!

Her daughter Ella cried in her car seat

as a dark shape approached.

Speeding by them like an old express train

screaming was hard to refrain!

Ella was silent they were both mesmerised

the barrier stayed down.

Then the scheduled train trundled through

what had they seen?

Barriers now rose how glad to move on

in her mind the image strong!

Annie was certain what they had seen was a ghost train

determined to find out more and come again!

The Foureyed Poet.