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1966 Reserved Compartment, by Leslie Darbon
1968 The Indomitable Pippin, by Allan Peacock
1971 The Commuter's Tales
1978 The trains don't stop here any more, by Victor Pemberton
1981 The Hex, by Gregory Evans
1982 The Great Times Crossword Conspiracy, by Ken Whitmore
1982 Love Me Tender, by Simon Moss
1985 Intercity Contract, by Rod Beacham
1992 Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie, serial
1996 Strangers on a train, by P. Highsmith
1997 The affair at Grover Station, by Jonathan Holloway
2000 Only a matter of time, by Alan Plater
2000 Time added on for injuries, by Alan Plater
2002 Conversations on the London train, by Don Haworth
2004 The Parting - Tanika Gupta
2006 Every bit of it

1990s The Ghost Train, by Arnold Ridley (other dates too)
1990s Victoria Station (series)
nk - Brief Encounter - Coward - see NC page.
nk - Young Lady from Midhurst - Fred Bradnum - see FB page
nk - Mystery of the blue train - Christie
nk - The 4.50 from Paddington - Christie
nk - Bhowani Junction - Masters' India, part 4

NOTES

RESERVED COMPARTMENT....1966
An intriguing mystery which starts with an argument about whether a titled landowner should have the right to get off the train on his own land...

THE COMMUTER'S TALES ....1971
Update on the Canterbury Tales idea, set on a train.

THE HEX....1981
Classic suspense with a frightening tale based on M.R.James' "Casting the Runes". THE GREAT TIMES CROSSWORD CONSPIRACY ....1982 Cast: Tony Robinson, Meg Johnson, Bob Grant, Bonnie Hurran, Peter Wheeler, Stephen Granville. Directed by Alfred Bradley.

LOVE ME TENDER....1982
13 Oct 82. A comedy about model railway fanatics. 45m. By Simon Moss.With Dinsdale Landen, Anna Cropper, Simon Hewitt. Recording sent by Alan Stokes - many thanks.

INTERCITY CONTRACT....1985
Agatha Christie - style mystery set on a train.

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS....1992
Too well-known to say much - David Suchet is immaculate as Poirot, and this story occupies several (I think 6) half-hour episodes.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN....1995
Dramatised by Craig Warner. R4, 25 Jan 96. 55m. Two men meet on a train journey. There's nothing they fear to say. They'll never see each other again. A tale of suspense and murder.

..........two excellent plays by Alan Plater: Only a matter of time (R4 1 Nov 00 1415) and Time added on for injuries (R4 2 Nov 00 1415), where James Bolam and Alan David fence verbally in two settings a century apart in rural Wales; Bolam is the industrialist who wants to rip up the countryside and build railways, and David is the Welshman who objects. Did you know that many villages had their own local time before the coming of the railways?

CONVERSATIONS ON THE LONDON TRAIN....2002
A light-hearted romance from a master of the art of the radio play - Don Haworth.

Radio Times: "An ordinary train journey offers a life-changing and heart-warming opportunity to two ordinary people who share their hopes and fears in this gentle story". (more about this play on Don Haworth's page)

EVERY BIT OF IT .... 2006
Two Bessie Smith fans meet on a train. R3.

Nigel Deacon / Diversity website

Above plays known to exist in VRPCC collections

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