The Strange Light!

The Strange Light! is a magazine story.

Plot
Thomas is working late, but as his puffs through a spooky forest, he sees a figure in an old carriage that makes him frightened. Although he is ridiculed by his driver for supposedly seeing things, Thomas insists that he isn’t. The next day, Thomas passes the old carriage which he finds to not be so spooky. However, he passes by it a third time that night when his driver sees a light in the carriage as well alongside a man with another light on the tracks; a cart has fallen onto the line and he was coming to warn them.

After the cart is cleared, the man is revealed to be homeless and has been living in the carriage for some time. After Sir Topham Hatt is informed, he offers the man a job on the railway and a station house to live in, which he gratefully accepts. Thomas, meanwhile, is just happy that it was not a ghost.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Terence

Trivia

 * This story could have been inspiration for the fifth series episode, Haunted Henry.