The last train always arrives from out of a thick mist of mystery and fear. The occupants behind the grimy windows are doomed to ride the train forever, as is anyone who chooses to board one of the carriages when it pulls into the station.

Gerald Parker has been a Station Master for most of his career - a career that is being brought to a depressing, early end with staff cutbacks and automated ticket booths looming in the coming months. Gerald's wife has left him for a man who promises her fun, and the future for Gerald looks bleak. When a ghostly, haunted train begins to pull into his station in the dead of night, Gerald is too scared to tell anyone in case it hastens his unwanted retirement. Then the local police start accusing Gerald of being involved in the disappearance of the train's most recent passenger. A young woman who stepped aboard from Gerald's platform, never to be seen again.

The choices that Gerald faces to escape the growing nightmare are few. The one thing he doesn't ever want to do is buy a ticket to ride on the last train of his life.