when this play be first show by the bbc over 30 year ago and it would have be something quite different for the time . so therefor some people would have find it quite scary and and may well have be impress with the special effect . look at the play in this day and age and it doesn not seem to be all that scary anymore and even the special effect can leave a lot to be desire . would a train really be allow to pass a red light into a dark tunnel . i do not think so . but if you watch this play again and you will observe that the first train that enter the tunnel and rush straight through the red light . ( maybe that how it be in dickens time ) . you will also notice that the footpath that lead down to the signal box be very steep and in a poor state . surely there would have be a series of proper step with handrail for the signalman to climb up or down into the cutting . ( i can not help but notice thing like that ) i will not take anything away from the acting and both denholm elliott ( signalman ) and bernard lloyd ( the traveller ) give wonderful performance . i be not at all sure what be go on . i mean be the ghost the traveller and or what . do anyone really fully understand this rather confusing story . ( well maybe i be the only one that do not ) . to sum up . the play have a wonderful atmosphere throughout and with great character . it suffer from not be that scary these day and and a little if not very confuse in place and and have some rather unusual signalling practises . thanks for read my review .