To celebrate Halloween and raise some much needed cash for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St Michael’s Hospital, a group of First Great Western colleagues will spend the night in various parts of Bristol Temple Meads train station.

Some will brave the depths of the underground vaults beneath the station. Dating back to Victorian times, they were once used to store wine and beer before serving as an air raid shelter during the Second World War.

Another group will bed down in the pay bills office, where many colleagues have reported paranormal activity over the years, including strange hazy shapes and cold sensations passing over them. One female colleague regularly spoke of “a man sat in the corner” in the exact spot where a colleague had suffered a heart attack and died some three years before she joined the company. She had no knowledge of his death.

Emma Saunders, who was a pioneer member of the Railway Mission, used to conduct Sunday classes for orphans in an old boardroom in the offices. She died in the 1927 and her ghost is said to have walked the corridors of the building ever since.

First Great Western will match anything up to the first £500 we raise and all cash will help provide life-saving cots and a new intensive care suite at the hospital. So please dig deep and help us support this worthy cause.