A CHILLING tale of life on the rails is alighting in Dorset for three nights at Lighthouse, Poole. The classic story, which is based on a 1923 play of the same name written by Arnold Ridley of Dad’s Army fame, follows a group of passengers stranded at a remote station haunted by a phantom train.
The classic comedy thriller follows a group of travellers (including a newly-wed couple, an estranged couple, a self-indulgent young dandy and an elderly spinster with a parrot) stranded in the waiting room of an isolated railway station on a dark and stormy night. They are warned by the stationmaster that they will die if the see the ghostly train that haunts the line. Ridley’s inspiration came after becoming stranded overnight at Mangotsfield station in Bristol, now a disused station on the Midland Railway main line.
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The production stars Jeffrey Holland (Hi-de-Hi!, You Rang, M'Lord?, Oh, Doctor Beeching!), Tom Butcher (The Bill, Doctors), Sophie Powles (Emmerdale), Judy Buxton (General Hospital, On the Up) and David Janson (Get Some In!, 'Allo 'Allo!, Keeping Up Appearances). The Ghost Train runs from May 7-9 with a matinee on May 9 at 2.30pm.
: For more information please contact the Lighthouse Poole on 0844 406 8666 or lighthousepoole.co.uk
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