The Ghost Train is a play, written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright Arnold Ridley. It 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.

The play used elaborate special effects to simulate a train running through the station,

The programme together with a sketch performed at the after show party and now a wealth of photos and posters thanks to Mr Burgess!