RC Sherriff gives a meticulous account of the Stevens' journey by train to Bognor, from the anxiety about timing and perhaps missing the connection at busy Clapham Junction, to the choice of compartment, fellow passengers, reading material, and boiled-beef sandwiches. Ten-year-old Ernie Stevens revels in it all: "If Railway Stations had lost their thrill for others, their tantalising mysteries still held him tightly in their grip". This is The Station (1930, Museum of the Home) by Gladys Ticknell (1896-1976).