The Ghost Train (1941) (with old adverts from 1994)

A group of passengers find themselves stranded at a deserted train station one stormy night after missing their connection. The station master tells them they cannot stay at the station, but when they insist he tells them the story of the Ghost Train. Legend has it there was a train crash caused when former station master Ted Holmes had a heart attack and died before he could close the bridge, and ever since both he and the train have haunted the place. Despite this, the passengers stay on at the station, but during the night funny things happen and later the station master is discovered dead. What is going on? Starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill, Carole Lynne, Moreland Graham, Betty Jardine, Stuart Latham, Herbert Lomax, Raymond Huntley, Linden Travers and D.J Williams. This is from one of my old recordings from around 1994, complete with adverts shown when it was broadcast on Channel 4. It was a rare showing as this was the first time in years that it had been shown on TV, due to the film having been lost for decades. It features among it's cast Bill Travers' sister Linden and Phyllis Calvert's husband Peter Murray-Hill, who died young, as did Betty Jardine - so amusing as the courting couple with "'er 'Erbert" - who died in childbirth in 1945 aged just 41. Kathleen Harrison by comparison lived to the ripe old age of 103, dying in 1995!