One Train Can Hide Another
‘Un train peut en cacher un autre’ reads a famous sign on the French railways, a sign that inspired one of Kenneth Koch’s most famous poems. Here’s our selection of books and films in which trains hide trains, and other things.
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Murder at Deviation Junction
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A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, ...
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The Lost Luggage Porter
This instalment in Andrew Martin’s series of superior potboilers starring railway detective Jim Stringer finds our hero in York, on the trail of th... See details
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The Necropolis Railway
Andrew Martin’s classy thriller is set in a fog-bound Edwardian London, where railwayman Jim Stringer finds himself transferred to work on a myster... See details
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The Whitsun Weddings
The title poem of Larkin’s 1964 collection describes a train journey made from Hull to London one hot Whit Saturday, a traditional day for weddings... See details
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Parallel Lines, or Journeys on the Railway of Dreams
Forty-something ex-punk musician and bookseller Ian Marchant came late to trainspotting, under the influence of his girlfriend. In this hilarious a... See details
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Caught on a Train
This 1980 BBC2 Playhouse production stars Michael Kitchen as Peter, a young publisher making his way across Europe to an important business meeting... See details
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Brief Encounter
‘This can’t last. This misery can’t last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not ... See details
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Death Ride from Fenchurch Street and other Victorian Railway Murders
With a fine sense of dramatic tension and an eye for gory detail, Arthur and Mary Sellwood describe the first murders to occur on Britain’s fledgli... See details
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The Railway
Set in a small Uzbek town between 1880 and 1980, Ismailov’s novel is made up of a mosaic of stories from the mosaic of nationalities that the railw... See details
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The Beast Within
The 17th book in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle is a tale of adultery, jealousy and murder, set on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre... See details
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Closely Observed Trains
Miloš Hrma, a dispatcher’s apprentice at a village railway station in Nazi-occupied Bohemia, is less interested in the war than in losing his virgi... See details