An assortment of assorted railway travellers find themselves stranded in the waiting room of an isolated country station in the evening. The station master tries to persuade them to leave as he is closing the station for the night. When they refuse, he warns them of the supernatural danger of a passenger train, its passengers fatally wrecked in the locality several years before, that sometimes haunts the line at night, bringing death to all who set eyes upon it. Incredulous of his story, they still refuse to leave, and he departs leaving them facing a night at the station.