Beware of the Trains is a collection of detective short stories by the British writer Edmund Crispin published in 1953.

[1] It contains sixteen stories including Beware of the Trains which gave its title to the collection.

They all feature Crispin's amateur detective and Oxford professor Gervase Fen, an eccentric with a genius for solving complex cases.

A number also featured Detective Inspector Humbleby of Scotland Yard who also appears in two of the novels in the Fen series.

[2] It was the last work featuring Fen for many years, until Crispin returned to the character for the 1977 novel The Glimpses of the Moon.