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.

A businessman just misses his train and pays a visit to the crowded station buffet for a beer.

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.