AS magic tricks go, it seems pretty impressive.

And now one man’s antics on the platform at Blackburn railway station have received worldwide acclaim with more than three million hits online.

In the video the magician asks a passer-by to pick a playing card and then sign it. The man chooses a four of clubs and dutifully signs it in black ink. A few seconds later a train pulls into the platform and lo and behold, the signed card is inside one of the carriages along with dozens of passengers.

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Casually dressed in trainers, shorts and a jumper, the magician is a Blackburn-based removals man who refers to himself as Magic Mark.

The 31-year-old says he has been doing magic for friends for the past 10 years and can’t believe the video has been so popular.

He said: “I made the trick up and then 24 hours later MSN, Yahoo and AOL had picked it up.

“More than 3.3million people have seen it.

“It has really taken off, I really did not expect it to take off the way it did.”

Now he is in talks with several promoters and has also been offered a range of magic gigs in the area. “I just want to do magic and perform for people,” he said.

Despite the acclaim, some viewers have been more impressed than others.

Chorley-based wedding magician Paul Edmondson said many of his friends had sent him links to the train video when it went viral over the Bank Holiday. He knows how the trick was carried out and urges people to ‘check out the two signatures on the cards’.

He says doing real tricks which would fool another magician are almost impossible to do on camera. “People say to me that I am so quick but it’s not that, it’s that I can misdirect them. “You will never get a true magician doing slight of hand on the internet because you can’t misdirect a camera. But (the train one) was such a simple trick to pull off, I saw straight away how it was done.

“If someone can get so much notoriety through doing that trick though, I’ve started to think what can I do.” he said.

*For his next trick Magic Mark is planning to travel to Buckingham Palace tomorrow, so keep an eye on his Facebook site for more magical antics.