![]() ![]() ![]() He took a keen interest in railway safety and the lives of the railway workers. ![]() He helped rescue fellow passengers and was deeply affected by the experience, possibly suffering from what we could now call PTSD, losing his voice for two weeks after the event and then becoming ever more frightened of railway travel. In Jonathan Holloway’s newly imagined adaptation of Dickens' popular short story, The Visitor on a recuperative walking holiday in the Sussex countryside happens upon a solitary signalman in a dank, icy cold railway cutting where the sun never shines, and unexpectedly finds himself part of a spooky tale of spectral, supernatural occurrences.Ĭharles Dickens wrote this much-loved ghost story in 1866 following his own experience of being involved in a train crash at Staplehurst in Kent when he was travelling with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother. ![]()
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