The Ghost Train (2012)

[Hugo]

From the Bradford Telegraph and Argus 17 Jan 2012
A remake of classic comedy thriller The Ghost Train is being filmed on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
Several weeks of filming by Canny Media Films is focusing on Oakworth Station including several night shoots.
Canny media productions are recreating spooky scenes from the 1941 black-and-white movie starring legendary comedian Arthur Askey.
It marks the directorial debut of Matt Grindley, who has appeared in Coronation Street and Shameless.
He said he had learned to love old movies at the age of nine while, off school with a broken ankle, he watched many 1940s films.
The director said: “I loved the cold wet spooky station in The Ghost Train and the way everybody pulled together for the night.
“One of the things we as a production company were very keen on was to keep faithful to the original film with lot’s of ‘nods’ to it.
“The location and the amazing way the script has been written has fulfilled this.”
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.
Mr Grindley said that in the original The Ghost Train the station and its rooms were created on a film set.
He said it was “uncanny” how similar the station’s facilities – made famous in 1970s movie The Railway Children – were to the original, which was filmed in Barmouth Bridge, in Wales.
The Ghost Train is to be released in cinemas across the UK this autumn. More details at website ghosttrain movie.co.uk.

[faginsgirl]

As long as bleedin` Arthur Askey isn`t in it it should be great!

[Arthur Linden-Jones]

Sacrilege ! ! Is nothing sacred ?? St Trinians I could take, The Lady Killers was barely acceptable, but this ....... !!! Not on.

.... being filmed on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Oh my hat!! Can you imagine the technical and relative historical inaccuracies, particular relating to railways, that this travesty is going to present. I can just see it now, a steam engine (probably a Pecket industrial 0-4-0T) with the "ghost train" at Keighley, with a Northern Rail Class 333 EMU screaming through in the background.

Have UK film makers got less imagination for new films than Hollywood, with all their remakes?

As long as bleedin` Arthur Askey isn`t in it it should be great!

Wash your mouth !!!

[CaptainWaggett]

The makers appear to think the 1941 film is in the public domain

home

[Corinne]

"Where do it come from & where do it go." Is that the one? If so, my Mum will be pleased. She has been using that expression for years & some think she's a bit daft.

[captainhaddock]

aaay thang yaw

i used to love this film when i was a kid
i'm sure it already has been remade since the arthur askey version
or am i confusing it with a will hay film ?