Bincome tunnel mystery

Just to the west of Bincombe, the mainline railway from London to Weymouth cuts through the hills by way of a tunnel. It is the tunnel that is haunted by a shadowy looking figure who walks with a stumbling tread and bowed head. More than one train driver has thought he has run down some hapless member of the public, only to find no sign of a body nor of anything that might have looked like a person. In 1991 a driver went so far as to call the police, but even the most dedicated search by the local constabulary could find nothing.