The Ghost Train

Summary: BBC Television production of Arthur Ridley’s thriller The Ghost Train.
Theatre play: The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley [more information]
Play synopsis: This comedy thriller ‘depicts a group of travellers stranded at a remote railway station, reacting with various degrees of credulity to the station master’s warning of death to anyone who sets eyes on the ghostly train that haunts the line. [...] The plot revolves around a party of passengers (including a newlywed couple, an estranged couple, a self-indulgent young dandy and an elderly spinster with a parrot) who find themselves stranded in the waiting room of an isolated station on a stormy night. The station master tries to get them to leave citing the local legend of a ghost train that dooms all who see it to death. It is revealed later in the plot that the train is in fact smuggling arms and the story has been concocted to frighten away strangers.' Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Train_%28play%29.
Production history: First performed at St Mrtin’s Theatre, London on 23 November 1925. Published by French in 1930.
Date of transmission: Monday 20 December 1937
Time: 3.20pm (40 mins)
Channel: BBC Television

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