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.
Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
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Godfrey Tearle
Sir Wilfred Rhodes
Hugh Williams
Gerald Winter
Judy Gunn
Diana Gregory
Mickey Brantford
Tom
Julien Mitchell
Bob Holt
Olga Lindo
Mrs. Holt
Michael Hogan
Charlie
Frank Pettingell
Goddard
Eliot Makeham
Pip
Eve Gray
Daisy
Sydney Fairbrother
Mrs. Grebe
Sam Wilkinson
The Stutterer
Viola Compton
Miss Smith
John Lloyd
The Steward
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