The Last
Train was a post-apocalyptic survival story and concerned a group of
survivors, cryogenically frozen in a railway carriage when a meteorite struck
the Earth, and their struggle to adapt to a new world, where everything they had
known is dead and gone.
The show was filmed in Derbyshire and
Trawsfynydd in Merionethshire, and at the East Lancs Steam Railway, Bury,
Lancashire. Cast included; Nicola Walker (Harriet Ambrose), James Hazeldine
(Austin Danforth), Zoe Telford (Roe Germaine), Sacha Dhawan (Leo Nixon), Dinita
Gohil (Anita Nixon), Caroline Carver ( Hild), and Christopher Fulford (Ian
Hart).
Recorded from satellite tv, and supplied
as a 2 disc set, the quality (compared to a retail dvd) is Audio 8.5 Video 8.5
(Very Good!).
DVDs and episodes are as follows;
DVD One
Episode 1; Harriet Ambrose, a government
technician, is travelling from London to Sheffield, aware of a pending
cataclysm. As the train she is on enters a tunnel, a meteorite the size of
Birmingham strikes the Earth
Episode 2; The survivors explore the
ruins of Sheffield city centre in a search for friends and family, but find no
survivors. The group desperately needs to find a supply of fresh water, and
Harriet leads them to the bunker, and possible salvation. They are confronted by
evidence of fellow survivors, but it is of an unwelcome nature
Episode 3; The survivors head out of the
city towards the Ark, and search for food and water. A trip to an abandoned
factory complex has tragic consequences
DVD Two
Episode 4; Jandra is seriously injured,
but the group needs to press on with their journey. Their progress is blocked by
an unfordable river, but Hild leads her new friends to medical facilities, and
into danger
Episode 5; The travellers take refuge in
a village and meet the last surviors of a failed community, but their hosts
present a threat to the group and the hunters are in pursuit
Episode 6; The survivors reach the Ark,
where they discover the truth about Hild's people.
A preview of The Last Train is below;
