Ghost train (spiritual entity)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] Spiritual entities
Another use for Ghost train refers to a ghost of a train (usually just the locomotive, though there have been some ghost train stories that involve a whole train).
Most ghost train sightings have been recorded in America and Great Britain, like the play The Ghost Train, some reports are of engines that were wrecked in earlier train crashes or derailments, while others are simply replays of past events.
Some of these Ghost train sightings include:
The Grey Train - A steam engine on the former Highland Railway outside Dunfermline, near Glasgow. The engine was first seen in 1921, hauling four dimly-lit carriages. It was later seen in 1929, and this report states that the train was floating.
Nimbus - A British Rail Class 55 "Deltic" diesel locomotive. Was sighted on the main line outside of Crewe nine months after it was scrapped.
The St. Louis Ghost Train - ( see St. Louis Light ) A supposedly phantom vehicle that haunts a village in Saskatchewan. 1
[edit] Ghost Trains in fiction
- Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends has covered the concept of ghost engines no fewer than four times
- The Ghost Train - A play by Arnold Ridley
- Long Black Train - A song concerning a ghost train that ferries sinners to Hell.
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? - TV series that features a ghost train named 7:13 (In Episode 52, Series 4, "The Tale of Train Magic").
- During the Roxas' story in Kingdom Hearts 2, one of the seven mysteries of Twilight Town is an enigmatic purple train that appears without anyone on board. Later however, the players learn that the train is actually a train that carries the passengers to a hidden tower of Twilight Town, the residence of Yen Sid.
- Doomtrain is a Guardian Force in the Playstation game Final Fantasy VIII. Of all the Guardian Forces, this ghostly locomotive is considered the most difficult to obtain, requiring the player to collect various rare items including several Malboro tentacles. Although lacking in power, it's multi-status inflicting attack is more than enough to make Doomtrain a valuable asset.
- Phantom Train is a train in the Super Nintendo game Final Fantasy VI that carries the spirits of the recently deceased. It is unknown where the train takes them, or even if it does anything more than carry them until they simpy fade away as a means of comfort at the end of their existence (the game gives no mention of an afterlife and much of the dialog seems to be based on death being the end). By the end of the game, magic ceases to exist, and so it is possible that the phantom train, possibly an "Esper", is also now gone.
- A ghost train appears in the 1989 movie Ghostbusters II when the Ghostbusters are exploring an old, unused portion of the New York Central and the ghost train appears which then "runs through" the character of Winston before disappearing.
