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The Ghost Train

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 8m

Arnold Ridley

The Ghost Train
by Arnold Ridley

Arnold Ridley's classic drama.

The Ghost Train

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 8m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior

Details

Summary
Arnold Ridley's classic drama was first produced in 1925 and filmed no less than three times. A very silly young man accidentally strands six passengers at a small Cornish wayside station. Despite the pyschic stationmaster's weird stories of a ghost train, they decide to stay the night in the waiting room. Soon they regret this decision as ghostly and not so ghostly apparitions materialize, before the young man reveals the true reason behind the night's events.
Keywords
M8 (young, 20s, 60, elderly) F4 (20s, elderly)
  • Time Period 1920s
  • Setting A station waiting-room
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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Authors

Arnold Ridley

Arnold Ridley

ARNOLD RIDLEY, OBE (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984)

Born in Bath – and always a proud West Countryman – Arnold Ridley is best known today for playing the part of Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army. This came at the end of a long and varied career in the theatre. He was a prol ...

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