The Train Stops

A doctor in the small town of Dandridge tells a strange story about two mysterious visitors that only he and his daughter have encountered. His daughter says she has fallen for a man who arrives every day on the 5:16 train. Nobody else in town has seen this man, and he keeps showing up even after the train stops coming to Dandridge.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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