The Ghost Train

The Ghost Train

1941

A group of passengers stranded overnight at a rural railway station discover the supposedly haunted Ghost Train is being used as cover for a gang of criminals smuggling contraband into the country. Based on Arnold Ridley's long-running stage play, the film is a comedic mystery thriller with wartime-era charm.

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Director

  • Walter Forde

Cast

  • Arthur Askey

Filming Locations

  • Dawlish Warren

    Location shots were taken around Dawlish Warren as part of the Devon coastal railway sequences used to establish the journey into the West Country.

  • Liskeard Station

    Liskeard Station in Cornwall was used as a filming location, providing the Cornish branch-line station setting central to the story.

  • Teignmouth

    Exterior railway footage of the train travelling along the Great Western Railway sea wall at Teignmouth was used in the film, establishing the West Country setting.