A Ghost Story for Christmas — Season 1, Episode 6: The Signalman

Episode synopsis

A railway signalman tells a curious traveller how he is being troubled by a ghostly spectre that seems to predict calamity.

About A Ghost Story for Christmas

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Stalls of Barchester
• E2A Warning to the Curious
• E3Lost Hearts
• E4Treasure of Abbot Thomas
• E5The Ash-tree
• E7Stigma
• E8The Ice House
• E9A View From a Hill
• E10Number 13
• E11Whistle and I'll Come to You
• E12The Tractate Middoth
• E13The Dead Room