A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Jack Warner
Jim Hardcastle
Gladys Henson
Mrs Hardcastle
Patric Doonan
Ron Stacey
Valerie Hobson
Stella
Joan Dowling
Ella
Olga Lindo
Mrs. Bailey
Susan Shaw
Doris Hardcastle
Philip Dale
Hardcastle's Fireman
Miles Malleson
Johnson, the Timekeeper
Leslie Phillips
Stacey's Fireman
Percy Walsh
District Superintendent
Will Ambro
Lancashire Railwayman
Qwerty
Houria
Housekeeping
The Minister
Finsterworld
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Shun Li and the Poet
Miracle: Letters to the President
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
A Question of Faith