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Headsup - 9th Oct 21:00 BBC4 On the right tracks

Between the Lines: Railways In Fiction And Film, showing Thursday
October 9th on BBC 4 at 9:00pm

Lovers parting at a station, secret assignations in confined
compartments, the runaway carriage, the rooftop chase... railways have
long been a staple of romance, mystery and period dramas.

In this programme, novelist Andrew Martin (pictured), creator of Jim
Stringer the Edwardian Railway Detective, takes a fascinating journey
along the fictional railway, finding out how trains came to shape the
work of writers from Dickens to JK Rowling.

He shows how, at first, locomotives were seen as frightening, but they
began to be accepted, until by the time of The Railway Children they
had become a symbol of innocence and Englishness. He shows how trains
made for unforgettable cinema in The 39 Steps and Brief Encounter, and
how when the railways fell out of favour in the 1960s, their plight
was highlighted in John Betjeman's films.

Martin also shows why trains continue to fire our imagination, long
after the passing of the steam age.