Show Notes
The last steam train from London to Cornwall carries a disparate group of travellers: a pair of newlyweds, a couple whose marriage is on the rocks and a lady with a parrot called Joey.
The last thing any of them needs is to be stranded on a Fal Vale's deserted railway station - which is the object of local superstition.
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