A vast railway network connected Russia from East to West.

The second of these vast railway bridges crosses the Menai Straits, which separate Caernarvon from the island of Anglesey.

Sweaty, musical, melodramatic and political, Cairo Station stars ballsy writer-director Youssef Chahine as a homicidal newspaper seller in Cairo's vast railway station.

It would be like passing from a notice of the tubular boiler of Stephenson's Rocket to a discussion of the vast railway system it begot.