A fictional closed station featured in an Agatha Christie novel

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Miss Marple lived in the fictional village of St Mary Mead which it appears to have been an early railway station closure. as in the novel "4:50 from Paddington", someone had to take a taxi from the open fictional railway station of Milchester to St Mary Mead, as that station had been closed. Has anyone any idea which long-closed railway station would have been the one behind the one in the novel as St Mary Mead?

Similar matters such as the real-life closed station in the film "The Titfield Thunderbolt" are much easier to resolve with much to read on that now-closed line.

 

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Having looked at Wikipedia, the village seems to have had a flexible location, but supposing it to be somewhere in Hampshire the Hurstbourne to Fullerton branch closed around 1930, so how about Longparish? Or Bishop's Waltham, which also closed around then. And I suppose there could have been a 4.50 Paddington to Milchester (Cheesehill) via Newbury

 

[Mag_seven]

Miss Marple lived in the fictional village of St Mary Mead which it appears to have been an early railway station closure. as in the novel "4:50 from Paddington", someone had to take a taxi from the open fictional railway station of Milchester to St Mary Mead, as that station had been closed. Has anyone any idea which long-closed railway station would have been the one behind the one in the novel as St Mary Mead?

Similar matters such as the real-life closed station in the film "The Titfield Thunderbolt" are much easier to resolve with much to read on that now-closed line.

In the opening few seconds of the 1961 film adaptation of the 4.50 from Paddington, "Murder she said", the station announcer announces the calling points as "Ealing Broadway, Hanwell, Hayes, West Drayton, Langley, Taplow, Milchester and Brackhampton".

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Under the trivia entry in IMDB for this picture the following entry appears confirming this:

The opening line: "Station announcement. The train standing at platform 2 is the 4:50 for Ealing Broadway, Hanwell, Hayes, West Drayton, Langley, Taplow, Milchester, and Brackhampton." The first six are genuine stations along the western line from Paddington, while the last two are fictitious and taken from the novel on which this movie was based.

Murder She Said (1961) - Trivia - IMDb

Murder She Said (1961) - Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more...

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Does any of the above help?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Having looked at Wikipedia, the village seems to have had a flexible location, but supposing it to be somewhere in Hampshire the Hurstbourne to Fullerton branch closed around 1930, so how about Longparish? Or Bishop's Waltham, which also closed around then. And I suppose there could have been a 4.50 Paddington to Milchester (Cheesehill) via Newbury

An unexpected use of Longparish railway station that is stated above, on the LSWR Fullerton to Hurstbourne Line, has been the inspiration to now include that line on a forthcoming journey on the Closed Stations Journey quiz on this website, as in all the years since that started in 2011, that short line has never been used so far.