disapearing train

[schiehallion]

I once read in the daily mirror a good few years ago, (it was in the old codgers section) about a train that entered a tunnel at edge hill just outside liverpool but never came out the other side, a reader was asking whether this was true and the codgers affirmed this fact saying it was in the early 1900s, if it was true what explainations were mooted at the time ? how could science explain this happening?

[jake-the-peg]

I think Sciences best explanation is "don't believe what you read in tabloid newspapers".

I distinctly remember a Sport story "WWII bomber found on the moon". then 2 days later "WWII bomber vanishes from the moon" - With a picture of the moon without the bomber they'd drawn in 2 days earlier to prove that it had vanished.

I think we'd need at least a link to the story

[R1Geezer]

Never had you down as a Sunday Sport readerJake! "Statue of Elvis Found on Mars"!

This is just a load of old pony!

[vascop]

I don't know about science explaining it, but the most likely explanation is:
A Martian arrived on earth with a black hole in his pocket and it swallowed up the train and then flew back to Mars. It's obvious, you plonkers!

[Pyrrho]

The Old Codgers were never wrong mate.
I believe an old train was delibrately buried or bricked up in a disused offshoot of the Edge Hill tunnel(s) for posterities sake. It's a sort of a large time capsule type thingy.

[albaqwerty]

I'm with vascop on this :)

[Pyrrho]

albaqwerty

Well, of course, I've wieghed up all the facts and I now realise that Vascop's answer is the most feasible.