The most unusual section is the enquiry centre: some two dozen people taking telephone calls with questions about travel.

A group of prisoners, handcuffed in pairs, are placed in a carriage whilst the general public are held back by police.

A young boy, Matthew Perry, is traumatised as the police take him to the station master's office where an announcement is made for his mother to collect him.

Schlesinger makes a cameo appearance as a passing, umbrella-carrying business man, and a tearful and apparently lost child, Matthew Perry, was temporarily abandoned deliberately by his mother Margaret Ashcroft, an actress relative of Schlesinger.

Some other people appearing were also actors, including handcuffed convicts and a confused elderly woman.