"A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it."
Jack Warner
as Jim Hardcastle
Gladys Henson
as Mrs Hardcastle
Patric Doonan
as Ron Stacey
Valerie Hobson
as Stella
Joan Dowling
as Ella
Olga Lindo
as Mrs. Bailey
Susan Shaw
as Doris Hardcastle
Philip Dale
as Hardcastle's Fireman
Miles Malleson
as Johnson, the Timekeeper
Leslie Phillips
as Stacey's Fireman
Percy Walsh
as District Superintendent
Will Ambro
as Lancashire Railwayman
John Clements
as Raymond Hillary
Irina Baronova
as Irina Norozova
John Gregson
as Malcolm Murray-Bruce
Gwen Cherrell
as Charmian
Jacqueline Byrne
as Television Announcer
Neal Arden
as The Compere
Thelma Grigg
as The Harpist
Laurence Payne
as Richard
Denis Webb
as Clerk at Shipping Office
Peter Finch
as Philip Mason
Mary Morris
as Louise
Laurence Naismith
as Joe Hunt
Doris Yorke
as Mrs. Hunt
Michael Hordern
as First Plain Clothes Man
Charles Morgan
as Second Plain Clothes Man
Mark Dignam
as Bolingbroke
Guy Verney
as The Producer
Philip Ashley
as Actor
Bryan Coleman
Henry Hewitt
Lyndon Brook
Sidney Cole
Director
Charles Crichton
Jim Morahan
Art Direction
Chic Waterson
Camera Operator
Lionel Banes
Director of Photography
Basil Dearden
Screenplay
Anthony Mendleson
Costume Design
Bernard Gribble
Editor
Barbara Barnard
Hairstylist
Ronald Millar
Malcolm Baker-Smith
Angus MacPhail
Michael Balcon
Producer
Ernest Taylor
Makeup Artist
Gordon Dines
Paul Beeson
Leslie Bridgewater
Music
T. E. B. Clarke
Arthur Bradburn
Sound Recordist
Leonard Bulkley