Rail transport in fiction
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Some examples of railways in fiction include:
- The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (book, film)
- The Railway Series featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and friends by Rev. W. Awdry (books, TV series)
- The Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (books, films)
- Polar Express (book, film)
- The Thirty-Nine Steps (book by John Buchan, films, one by Alfred Hitchcock) features a sequence where the character Richard Hannay escapes from the Police by jumping from a train. One version uses the Forth Bridge in Scotland, while another is filmed on the Severn Valley Railway.
- Mission Impossible (film adaptation) sees a helicopter pursuing a TGV train into the Channel Tunnel which runs between Great Britain and France. In reality this type of train does not travel through the Channel Tunnel, and the tunnel shown in the film has double track whereas the real tunnel has two single bores.
- The Dark Tower (book series) by Stephen King. The main character Roland of Gilead travels through a series of caves which were once part of an underground railroad system. The characters also ride on a monorail with artificial intelligence.
- While You Were Sleeping (film) starring Sandra Bullock as a Subway worker who is mistaken for the fiancee of an injured passenger.
- Men In Black; Men In Black 2 (films) starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, has aliens living in the Subway.
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (film) sees a gang of criminals hijack a Subway train in order to extract a ransom.
- Volcano (film): An extension to the Subway meets a lava flow.
- Network (book) by Laurence Staig. A monster takes over London Underground and the minds of passengers.
- Silver Streak (film), in which a passenger train is both the primary set and plays a pivotal part in bringing murderers to justice.
- Closely Watched Trains (film), in which the story takes places at a railway station in World War II in Czechoslovakia under the Nazi occupation. The film is based on Bohumil Hrabal's novel, directed by Jiří Menzel.
- Murder On The Orient Express (book, film) describes a train journey from Paris to Istanbul aboard the Orient Express during which a murder takes place. Hercule Poirot, riding on the train solves the mystery and justice is served.
- Anna Karenina (book) by Leo Tolstoy. Train travel is arguably the most prominent motif of the story.
- The Lady Vanishes (film) by Alfred Hitchcock the majority of the plot takes place on a train heading for England.
- Death Line (1972) and Creep (2004) (films) both deal with killers on the London Underground.
- Two seasons of Power Rangers, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue and Power Rangers Mystic Force, (TV series) feature train based Megazords; the Supertrain Megezord and Solar Streak Megazord.
- The Crazy Locomotive by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1923 expressionistic 45-minutes play ( Obie Award-winning production at the Chelsea Theatre Center in 1977, Classical Theatre of Harlem). Two engineers push the locomotive to ever-greater speeds causing a head-on collision.
- La Bête humaine (novel) by Émile Zola, filmed 5 times, e.g. as Cruel Train
- Night Train aka Baltic Express, 1959 Polish film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- From Russia with Love - James Bond novel and film, confrontation on board of the Orient Express
- Brief Encounter - 1945 (film) romantic meetings in a train station
- The Motion Demon - 1919 (book) horror stories by Stefan Grabiński- Engine Driver Grot; The Wandering Train; The Motion Demon; The Sloven; The Perpetual Passenger; In the Compartment; Signals; The Siding; Ultima Thule.
- Northwest Frontier 1959 - British army officer smuggles an infant prince to safety aboard an antiquated locomotive.
- The Cassandra Crossing 1976 - Passengers aboard a transcontinental train face a threat from carrier of plague virus.
- The Locomotive - dynamic poem for children by Julian Tuwim, filmed by Zbigniew Rybczyński
- Strangers on a Train (novel, film) tells the story of how two strangers meet on a train and decide to exchange murders so they can't be tied to each other.
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