In The Signalman, adaptor Andrew Davies adds scenes of the traveller's nightmare-plagued nights at an inn, and re-affirms the ambiguity of the traveller-narrator by restructuring the ending, and by matching his facial features with those of the spectre.Rolinson, Dave, . Retrieved 2010-07-07. The film also makes use of visual and aural devices. For example, the appearance of the spectre is stressed by the vibrations of a bell in the signalbox, and the recurring red motif connects the signalman's memories of a train crash with the danger light attended by the ghostly figure.
