It's not on the timetable, you can’t buy a ticket, and in fact you’re not even allowed on board.

A single ghost train full of empty seats sails past the deserted box office at Newhaven Marine train station every day at 8.15pm on its way to Lewes.

But no amount of arm waving will make it stop because the locomotive is a ‘parliamentary train’ and exists only so Southern can avoid going through the formal closure proceedings for the station.

For full story see today's Argus.