Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.

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Cast

Godfrey Tearle

Sir Wilfred Rhodes

Hugh Williams

Gerald Winter

Judy Gunn

Diana Gregory

Mickey Brantford

Tom

Julien Mitchell

Bob Holt

Olga Lindo

Mrs. Holt

Frank Pettingell

Goddard

Eliot Makeham

Pip

Eve Gray

Daisy

Sydney Fairbrother

Mrs. Grebe

Nelson Keys

The Frenchman

Aubrey Mallalieu

Mulchester Doctor