The Train Now Standing

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1972 - 1973
  • 15 episodes (2 series)

At the sleepy, largely-forgotten railway station Burberry Halt, station master Hedley Green passes time with his assistant, Peter Pringle. Stars Bill Fraser, Hugh Walters, Garfield Morgan, Denis Lill, Norman Mitchell and more.

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