The 19:57 from Euston!

Click to see the epic moment caught on film!

When you think of the most romantic places in the world to be proposed to, exotic places such as Paris, Venice and Rome are likely to spring to mind. Not so much the packed 19.57 train to Watford Junction.

But with amazing skill, planning and sheer love, Adam King, 34, has pulled it off and the video of his marriage proposal to girlfriend Lucy Rogers has become an instant Youtube hit, spreading across the globe.

The video captures carriage two on Tuesday’s cramped train where rail users watched in wonder when the Adam Street choir, seeming to be regular passengers, suddenly burst into an untimely but beautiful rendition of Bill Withers’s Lovely Day.

Onlookers instantly began filming on their mobile phones and even began to sing along as the Adam Street singers reached the peak of the 1970’s hit. However, at this moment, they abruptly stopped their performance, expectantly watching an unknown and unsuspecting passenger on the train.

And then from his hiding place, Mr King, who also performs in the choir, strides up to his beautiful girlfriend, bends down on one knee and asks her to marry him. Ecstatically and in floods of tears, she says yes!

And what more can a girl ask for? A beautiful, carefully crafted moment that she will undoubtedly remember for the rest of her life.

Talking about planning such an event, Adam King said: “The biggest problem was making sure Lucy made the train.”

After months of careful planning, which even involved making a mock-up of the carriage in which to rehearse, the iconic moment almost didn’t go ahead. At the last minute on Tuesday November 1, Miss Rogers decided she wanted to drive to her destination rather than take the train. Not to be deterred, however, Mr King disconnected the car battery to make sure she made it on board!

Mr King said that he and Miss Rogers had not thought about any wedding plans as of yet, but added: “I guess the pressure is on to make it memorable now.”

And from all the hopeless romantic girls out there like myself, it sure is!

The happy couple now: Adam King with fiancee Lucy Rogers.

Halloween Ghost Tours!

Hi guys,


So as some of you may know, I'm currently doing a Masters in Print Journalism at Sheffield University, which is why I haven't been posting as many blog posts recently but I promise I haven't forgotten and will still be updating my blog as regularly as I can! 


For Halloween, I went on a spooky ghost tour around Sheffield with my flatmates and decided to write a quick story about it, hope you enjoy!

A fuzzy but atmospheric image of Mr P Dreadful describing a ghost outside the Lyceum Theatre.

Sheffield’s ghostly secrets are being retold in spooky strolls around its back streets. The Steel City Ghost Walks are especially popular at Halloween and Mr P Dreadful, the city’s resident ghost whisperer, can surely guarantee a chilling experience. As you follow him around the dark alleyways of the city, you will be regaled with tales of murder, scandal and ghostly encounters lasting to the present day. To make it worse, the stories are not based on rumour but on years of meticulous research and eye-witness accounts.

The ghost walks, which are unique every time, go across a variety of paths and sights, including the site of the Adelphi Hotel, the Lyceum Theatre and the Old Queen’s Head pub, one of the oldest buildings in the city.

Mr P Dreadful, whose namesake comes from the lurid story-telling paper the Penny Dreadful, is a clairvoyant and a medium. He claims to have been able to see and speak to the dead since he was a baby.

The walks were set up seven years ago, beginning as a joke with the Job Centre. But who’s laughing now? Mr P Dreadful, or 41-year-old Darren Johnson-Smith, has had over 30,000 people on his tours and wrote a book called ‘Haunted Sheffield’. His wife, Mrs J Dreadful, also runs the tours and has links with the supernatural. She reads tarot cards and claims to hear and smell the dead.

He said: “Even if I wanted to cheat on her, I couldn’t. She’d know exactly who I’d been with, at what time and where!”

The Ghost Tours run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and begin at 7:30pm at the Town Hall steps. 

Horrendous picture of me with Mr P Dreadful, but it was the only one I had!

Thanks for reading,

Emma. xx