Ghost Train

Ghost Train is an experience which blends together live actors, special effects, ride system and more to tell a story about what happens after death.

This isn’t your standard, funfair ghost train. No, Thorpe Park’s Ghost Train is a spectacle of an attraction. It is best not described as a ‘ride’, more an ‘experience’. If you have ever experienced the London Dungeons (or similar), it is best thought of like that.

Ghost Train is primarily an actor-led experience, but also includes a variety of special effects, as well as a physical transit system. The attraction tells you the story of the “Believers”, who believe in life after death, and would practice contacting the dead at a long-since abandoned, and condemned train station, Chapel Station.

Join Angelus Mortis at Platform 13, as well as train staff Tripis and Thogs, as you take a journey to the other side to see what lies at the end of the line…

Ghost Train opens daily from midday until park close.

The experience starts in the Waiting Room, where a creepy staff member instructs a group of 50 to wait. The silence is shortly broken by Angelus Mortis (shown through a Pepper’s Ghost effect), the Station Master of Thorpe Junction. Angelus explains how a long-standing society, called The Believers, would conduct rituals at Chapel Station, in attempts to contact the dead, but they themselves would end up dying “beautifully”. Angelus explains he knows this as he was at rituals “in spirit”.

After this, the group are taken past the station’s Lost and Found room (which features several Easter Eggs, and also plays Imagine Dragons’ Believer) and up to Platform 13, where they board the train. Two train staff, Tripis and Thogs, explain the story of Chapel Station further. One staff member tries to collect tickets, before the other says that we don’t need tickets, as we’re going to crypt at Chapel Station where The Believers were last seen.

After the train mysteriously comes to a stop, at Chapel Station, the group is guided through to The Crypt. Here, Tripis and Thogs explain that The Believers didn’t contact the dead, they summoned death itself. At this point, they become possessed by Angelus Mortis himself, and spirits flood the Crypt. The group is able to escape and join the train again.

On the journey away from Chapel Station, Angelus Mortis brings forth the dead, with Tripis and Thogs both under his control, as well as further spirits joining the train, along with lots of light and smoke effects, and UV painting revealed throughout the entire carriage. The train then arrives back at Platform 13 of Thorpe Junction, as though nothing happened, with an announcement say “If you see anything that doesn’t look right, please report it. See it, say it, sorted.”

On some occasions, a post-ride scene occurs, where the group is lead into and held in a fake shop. Here, a final spirit appears, before Angelus Mortis reappears one final time to say this area is “Soul Redemption”.

Fun Facts: Angelus Mortis is actually Latin for “angel of death”, and the train staff Tripis and Thogs are anagrams of “spirit” and “ghost” respectively.