Cancelled trains

I remember a few stories which have a particular even which mixes the characters to create the scenario in which they can exchange, and learn from each other.  One is a cancelled train, followed by late night taxi busses and midnight trains, and as the fellow passengers said goodbye at the end of their adventure they indeed knew they would never see each other again.

The story is about the ways in which the interaction enriched either one, two or many of those interaction. The storyteller must wind these enrichments through pacy action, witty, fairly idealised dialogue until the enrichment is no longer between the characters but between the storyteller and the listener.

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