Sentence examples for a ghost train from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a ghost train" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a train that runs without passengers or to describe a train that is associated with supernatural themes or folklore.
Example: "The legend says that on foggy nights, you can hear the whistle of a ghost train passing through the old railway."
Alternatives: "phantom train" or "specter train".

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In need of some self actualization after the threat of The Phantom Express—a ghost train so terrifying that I can't even bring myself to revisit it it was nice to get back to nature in the surprise hit of the day.

In need of some self actualisation after the threat of The Phantom Express—a ghost train so terrifying that I can't even bring myself to revisit it it was nice to get back to nature in the surprise hit of the day.

The Crescent felt like a ghost train.

Edmund Lea rides a "ghost train".

It was like a ghost train.

Any idea what it is? A. It is a ticket booth for a ghost train.

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Is the art of the Chapman brothers best understood as a seaside carnival of horrors, a ghost-train ride in a crummy funfair?

Dracula's is a real place, with a real Ghost Train, and "Jar of Hearts" is a real pop song.

Controversy still rages over which man really directed it but that's moot when presented with such a slick ghost train ride of a movie.

Thus far, however, plotlines of Spielberg's half-hour anthology series have leaned toward what he calls "the bright side of the fairy tale". They have been whimsical tales about a friendly ghost train, magnetically charged kids and an actor playing a mummy who gets mistaken for the real thing.

It has that rackety, circussy glint to it: if not an actual ghost train in a dingy south coast funfair, then it is perhaps one of those funny lines you still get in Kent and Sussex, steam-driven, gleaming with the hobbyist passion of its attendant volunteers.

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