The Ghost Train

November 2025

A Comedy, Thriller

Written by Arnold Ridley.

Directed by Cathie Pannell.

Produced by Greg Wall.

The production poster

About This Production

This production was our fourth show forming our own 100th year celebrations, and was produced almost 100 years to the day after The Ghost Train's first performance in London.

In keeping with the age of the show, all the effects were generated 'live' using traditional methods, pretty much as SBADS last did in 1944! You can read about the effects here.

Note that in many of the pictures Sharon Hughes is 'slumbering', uncredited, in the background as the inebriated Miss Bourne lying on the table at the back of the stage.

Cast

Saul Hodgkin: Mark Vickers
Richard Winthrop: Robin Willoughby
Elsie Winthrop: Bridie Kennerley
Charles Murdock: Dan Thomas
Peggy Murdock: Nat Cook
Miss Bourne: Sharon Hughes
Teddy Deakin: Tristram Grevatt
Julia Price: Samantha Richards
John Stirling: Peter Brown
Jackson: Tim McGill
Understudy for Elsie Winthrop: Jess Munday

Production Team

Stage Manager: Aaliyah 'AJ' Kempthorne
Set Design: Tristram Grevatt
Set Construction: Tristram Grevatt, Peter Brown, Alan Prince, Jack Chequer, Robin Willoughby, Tim McGill, Jack Willoughby
Costumes: Linda Capon, Val Meek
Hair and make-up: Kim Kidney
Lighting: Adam Cook, Jack Chequer
Live train effects: Aaliyah 'AJ' Kempthorne, Tim McGill, Jess Munday, Val Meek, Alan Prince, Greg Wall, Julia Willoughby
Additional effects: Tim McGill
Continuity: Val Meek
Posters and programmes: Tristram Grevatt
Musical Interludes: Richard Stevens
Photographs: Guy Pannell, Keith Male
Front of house: Veronica Brown and team

Programme

Gallery

: Stationmaster Saul Hodgkin (Mark Vickers) turns up the gas at Fal Vale (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook and Dan Thomas as Peggy and Charles (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes) interrupts Peggy and Charles (Nat Cook and Dan Thomas) in a tender moment (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Mark Vickers as Saul Hodgkin, Sharon Hughes as Miss Bourne, Nat Cook as Peggy, Dan Thomas as Charles, Robin Willoughby as Richard and Bridie Kennerley as Elsie (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Mark Vickers, Sharon Hughes, Tristram Grevatt, Nat Cook, Dan Thomas and Robin Willoughby (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Mark Vickers, Sharon Hughes, Tristram Grevatt, Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby and Bridie Kennerley (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Mark Vickers, Robin Willoughby, Sharon Hughes, Tristram Grevatt, Dan Thomas (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bickering couple Richard and Elsie Winthrop (Robin Willoughby and Bridie Kennerley) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Robin Willoughby and Dan Thomas (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) being a silly ass again (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Sharon Hughes, Bridie Kennerley and Tristram Grevatt (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) pretends to be a waiter as Richard (Robin Willoughby) and Saul (Mark Vickers) look on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddie taunts Peggy and Charles about their newlywed status (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Peggy (Nat Cook), Teddy (Tristram Grevatt), Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes), Elsie (Bridie Kennerley) and Charles (Dan Thomas) listen as Saul tells his ghostly tale (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Peggy (Nat Cook), Teddy (Tristram Grevatt), Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes), Elsie (Bridie Kennerley), Charles (Dan Thomas) and Richard (Robin Willoughby) listen as Saul (Mark Vickers) tells his ghostly tale (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) accuses Saul of(Mark Vickers) of fibbing (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes) becomes hysterical (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Saul (Mark Vickers) is discovered dead on the platform, ‘the lamp still burning in his hand’, to the horror of the travellers (Nat Cook, Sharon Hughes, Robin Willoughby, Dan Thomas, Tristram Grevatt, Bridie Kennerley) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes) and Peggy (Nat Cook) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) tells yet another inappropriate story (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Robin Willoughby, Sharon Hughes, Nat Cook, Bridie Kennerley, Dan Thomas and Tristram Grevatt (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Sharon Hughes as Miss Bourne and Robin Willoughby as Richard (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Sharon Hughes as Miss Bourne and Robin Willoughby as Richard (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Miss Bourne tries some of Teddy’s brandy as Peggy and Richard look on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Miss Bourne tries some of Teddy’s brandy as Peggy and Richard look on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Sharon Hughes as Miss Bourne (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: In the waiting room at Fal Vale (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: A tipsy Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes) alarms Charles (Dan Thomas) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: A tipsy Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes) alarms Charles (Dan Thomas) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Richard and Charles help Miss Bourne to lie down on the table (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Richard and Charles help Miss Bourne to lie down on the table (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bickering couple Richard and Elsie Winthrop (Robin Willoughby and Bridie Kennerley) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bickering couple Richard and Elsie Winthrop (Robin Willoughby and Bridie Kennerley) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Tristram Grevatt, Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby and Bridie Kennerley (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Julia (Sam Richards) bemuses Charles (Dan Thomas) and Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Julia (Sam Richards) bemuses Charles (Dan Thomas), Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) abd Richard (Robin Willoughby) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Sterling (Peter Brown) arrives (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Peter Brown, Tristram Grevatt, Robin Willoughby (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Tristram Grevatt, Sam Richards, Peter Brown, Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby, Bridie Kennerley (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Tristram Grevatt, Sam Richards, Peter Brown (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Sam Richards, Peter Brown, Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby, Bridie Kennerley (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Sam Richards as Julia and Peter Brown as Sterling (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook as Peggy and Tristram Grevatt as Teddy (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Charles (Dan Thomas) comforts Peggy (Nat Cook) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Charles (Dan Thomas) is unimpressed witrh a suggestion from Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Richard and Sterling (Robin Willoughby and Peter Brown) are concerned by Julia (Sam Richards) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Sam Richards, Peter Brown, Robin Willoughby, Bridie Kennerley (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Peggy is comforted by Charles as Teddy tries to free the locked door, while Sterling and Richard attempt to restrain the hysterical Julia (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) asks Sterling (Peter Brown) about the state of Julia (Sam Richards) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: A despondent Elsie, Richard, Peggy and Charles (Bridie Kennerley, Robin Willoughby, Nat Cook and Dan Thomas) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Richard (Robin Willoughby), Sterling (Peter Brown) and Julia (Sam Richards) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bridie Kennerley, Tristram Grevatt, Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby, Peter Brown and Sam Richards (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Tristram Grevatt, Nat Cook, Bridie Kennerley, Sam Richards, Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby and Peter Brown (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bridie Kennerley, Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Sam Richards and Tristram Grevatt (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bridie Kennerley, Dan Thomas, Nat Cook, Tristram Grevatt, Robin Willoughby, Peter Brown and Sam Richards (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Elsie (Bridie Kennerley) is comforted by Richard (Robin Willoughby) as Charles (Dan Thomas), Peggy (Nat Cook) and Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) look on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bridie Kennerley, Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby, Nat Cook, Tristram Grevatt, Peter Brown and Sam Richards (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Dan Thomas, Robin Willoughby, Nat Cook, Bridie Kennerley, Tristram Grevatt, Peter Brown and Sam Richards (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Robin Willoughby, Dan Thomas, Nat Cook, Bridie Kennerley, Tristram Grevatt, Peter Brown and Sam Richards (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) surprises everyone by whipping out a revolver and threatening Sterling (Peter Brown) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) surprises everyone by whipping out a revolver and threatening Sterling (Peter Brown) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) surprises everyone by whipping out a revolver and threatening Sterling (Peter Brown) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Elsie, Peggy and Richard (Bridie Kennerley, Nat Cook and Robin Willoughby) are startled by ther transformation in Teddy (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy and Charles (Tristram Grevatt and Dan Thomas) cover Sterling (Peter Brown) with their weapons, while Elsie, Peggy, Richard and Julia (Bridie Kennerley, Nat Cook, Robin Willoughby, Sam Richards) look on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bridie Kennerley, Nat Cook, Robin Willoughby, Tristram Grevatt, Dan Thomas, Sam Richards and Peter Brown (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) confers with Charles (Dan Thomas) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Saul Hodgkin (Mark Vickers) returns from the dead, brought in by Jackson (Tim McGill) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Saul (Mark Vickers) returns from the dead, accompanied by Jackson (Tim McGill), while the rest of the cast look on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Saul (Mark Vickers) returns from the dead, accompanied by Jackson (Tim McGill), while the rest of the cast look on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) unmasks the true identity of Sterling (Peter Brown) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) unmasks the true identity of Sterling (Peter Brown) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) explains the mystery to Elsie (Bridie Kennerley), Richard (Robin Willoughby), Peggy (Nat Cook) and Charles (Dan Thomas) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Bridie Kennerley, Robin Willoughby, Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Tim McGill, Tristram Grevatt and Sam Richards (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Julia (Sam Richards) attacks Teddy (Tristram Grevatt) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Julia (Sam Richards) threatens Charles (Dan Thomas) as Peggy (Nat Cook) looks on (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Sam Richards, Tim McGill and Tristram Grevatt (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Tim McGill, Sam Richards, Tristram Grevatt (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Nat Cook, Dan Thomas, Sam Richards, Tim McGill and Tristram Grevatt (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes) wakes up, to the relief – and bemusement – of Teddy, Peggy and Charles (Tristram Grevatt, Nat Cook and Dan Thomas) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: Miss Bourne (Sharon Hughes) wakes up, to the relief – and bemusement – of Teddy, Peggy and Charles (Tristram Grevatt, Nat Cook and Dan Thomas) (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: The full cast (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: The cast and crew of The Ghost Train (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)

: The effects team of The Ghost Train (SBADS, The Ghost Train, 2025)