Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Godfrey Tearle
as Sir Wilfred Rhodes
Hugh Williams
as Gerald Winter
Judy Gunn
as Diana Gregory
Mickey Brantford
as Tom
Julien Mitchell
as Bob Holt
Olga Lindo
as Mrs. Holt
Michael Hogan
as Charlie
Frank Pettingell
as Goddard
Eliot Makeham
as Pip
Eve Gray
as Daisy
Sydney Fairbrother
as Mrs. Grebe
Sam Wilkinson
as The Stutterer
