A trainspotter accidentally becomes everyone's confessor on Britain's saddest railway journey.
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of eccentric characters. With his passion for the railways and naïve disposition, Benjamin inadvertently encourages them to reveal their innermost fears and darkest secrets.
Direction
Clarke's cramped compositions turn a train carriage into purgatory.
Acting
O'Callaghan's benign blankness draws poison from strangers.
Director
Alan Clarke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clarke made this for ITV's 'Armchair Theatre'—proof that 1970s British television casually produced art cinema disguised as domestic entertainment.
Harecastle Tunnel was real and genuinely threatened; the film captures the specific grief of British rail decline before Beeching's cuts had even finished.
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