The main experience was a simulator dark ride built by Simworx with on-board virtual reality (produced by Figment Productions).

[5] In anticipation of the new attraction, Thorpe Park began a "Get in for a Bob" promotion, where 1871 people would be able to purchase a ticket into the resort for the modern-day equivalent of a shilling in Victorian times, which equals 5 pence.

The reimagined attraction was set to feature a brand new storyline, new multi-sensory effects, the removal of the VR, and an actor-led experience.

On Tuesday 2nd May, Thorpe Park announced on its social platforms, website, and app that Ghost Train would open to the public on Friday 26th May.

The announcement came with brand-new concept art showing part of the interior of an old, dirty London Underground train and the Grim Reaper standing outside behind a graveyard.

Guests enter a dark pre-show room to watch a Pepper's ghost projection of Derren Brown speaking, as he delivers a presentation on the concept of fear as entertainment.

Guests then proceed to the main station room where a Victorian North Eastern Railway train carriage is seen as if suspended from the roof in chains.

Boarding the train, guests enter a modern London Underground 1995 Stock carriage interior, hosted by uniformed staff.

Guests are seated and put on HTC Vive headsets, whilst an advertisement for a fracking company called "Sub Core" is played in the background.

Riders disembark and walk out into a derelict present day tube station, where the exterior of the carriage is now seen to be a modern London Underground 1995 Stock train.

The following show scene originally involved live actors, an animated train crash and smoke screen projection effect, before guests are ushered back onto the carriage.

This is followed by a disturbing sequence of events where the two conductors get possessed by death, a ghoul flies over the guests and the statues in the chapel glow and start to rotate.

In its opening year, guests would be ushered into a fake gift shop after disembarking the train where a surprise final scene would take place involving live actors, strobe lighting and smoke.