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.
Cast
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
John Clements
Raymond Hillary
Irina Baronova
Irina Norozova
John Gregson
Malcolm Murray-Bruce
Gwen Cherrell
Charmian
Jacqueline Byrne
Television Announcer
Neal Arden
The Compere
Thelma Grigg
The Harpist
Laurence Payne
Richard
Denis Webb
Clerk at Shipping Office
Peter Finch
Philip Mason
Mary Morris
Louise
Laurence Naismith
Joe Hunt
Doris Yorke
Mrs. Hunt
Michael Hordern
First Plain Clothes Man
Charles Morgan
Second Plain Clothes Man
Mark Dignam
Bolingbroke
Guy Verney
The Producer
Philip Ashley
Actor
Bryan Coleman
Actor
Henry Hewitt
Actor
Lyndon Brook
Actor
Crew
Charles Crichton
Director
Sidney Cole
Director
Basil Dearden
Director, Screenplay
Ronald Millar
Screenplay
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay
T. E. B. Clarke
Screenplay
Bernard Gribble
Editor
Lionel Banes
Director of Photography
Gordon Dines
Director of Photography
Michael Balcon
Producer
Paul Beeson
Camera Operator
Chic Waterson
Camera Operator
Anthony Mendleson
Costume Design
Barbara Barnard
Hairstylist
Ernest Taylor
Makeup Artist
Leonard Bulkley
Sound Recordist
Arthur Bradburn
Sound Recordist
Leslie Bridgewater
Music
Malcolm Baker-Smith
Art Direction
Jim Morahan
Art Direction
