Conton railway station

Conton is an abandoned railway station on the TR mainline network. It was never opened and is said to be haunted.

Proposal
In the 1970s, operations at the major suburban stations in the outskirts of Thorndyke were being pushed to breaking point due to overcrowding. One answer was to construct five new stations only a few miles out of the capital, Nortwick, Conton, Fife, Turning and Upwelking.

Proposals of the five stations took five months to finalise as legal problems and engineering defects emerged in designing the stations. Conton station was approved in 1972 with much celebration by locals.

Construction and nearby protests
Construction began on Conton station in 1974 outside the famed "Conton Tunnel". The design of the station was originally going to be a major mainline station with two island platforms but is was decided to change it to a single island platform to reduce operating costs. Only five months after construction began, the town protested against the station and ordered it to be demolished. Construction stopped when a legal battle against the railway was won after the island platform was completed. The person in charge of the protest later hung himself only half-a-mile from the incomplete station.

Life as a "ghost station"
Since TR never got to complete and open Conton, the station quickly became a source of urban legends related to ghostly trains (one headed by an American-style 2-4-4T) stopping an arriving at the never opened station. One claim was that the station is haunted by the ghost of the protest leader since he was seen standing on the platform or on the rails in front of trains.

Plans for opening (cancelled)
In the late-1980s, the town of Conton realized that no allowing trains to stop at the new station and preventing it to be completed was a mistake. The town soon sent an approval for the railway to re-open and complete the station to start commuter services. Unfortunately, this failed and the station stayed closed. In 2015, plans were soon drawn up to complete Conton railway station since problems arose with the passenger services accidently thinking the station was open (because of ghostly passengers and phantom passenger trains). The plans were cancelled when the operating costs were discovered. It's possible that Conton station would never be opened.

Basis
Conton railway station is based off Kymlinge station on the Stockholm Metro, Sweden. This station was never opened to public service and plans exist to open it. This is a perfect example of a "ghost station'. Like its fictional counterpart, Kymlinge's famed platform is of the "island" design and located inside and outside a tunnel.

Trivia
A similar sounding station on the TR network exists, Canton, but isn't related to Conton station.