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.

The train used to stop at the small town of Dandridge. Now the town doctor relates a story about two strangers who only himself and his daughter have met. She tells her father that she has fallen in love with a man who stops in town daily on the 5:16 train. No one else has seen him and he continues to stop in, even when the train doesn't.

Dr. Barnes’ wife died during the birth of the first and only child, Mary, 18 years ago, and the doctor is acutely aware of his inability to deal with Mary’s romantic problems. When Mary falls in love with a man who comes to her hometown, Dandridge, each week on the 5:15 train, she refuses to introduce him to her father or anyone else. Dr. Barnes becomes really alarmed when Dandridge is taken off the train schedule, and Mary is determined to make the train stop, even at the risk of her own life.