Claim: Silvanus Trevail, who purchased a third class ticket, committed suicide in a toilet at the Brownqueen Tunnel by shooting himself as the train entered the tunnel.
Evidence: On 7 November 1903 he shot himself in the lavatory of a train as it entered Brownqueen Tunnel a short distance from Bodmin Road railway station. Trevail caught the 11.40 up train from Truro, having purchased a third class ticket, a peculiar event as he typically travelled first class. As the train entered the Brownqueen tunnel, Trevail shot himself; when the train stopped at Bodmin Road, a porter was called, and Trevail's body was found lying across the toilet.