![]() ![]() ![]() Iconic: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, with and Toby Jones in a scene from Murder On The Orient Expressīut at the end of every term, the same train also took us home, to freedom as John and I saw it. We lived in West London and at the start of every term we undertook the two-hour, 70-mile journey to Kent by rail. ![]() I was first sent there in 1954, two years after my brother John, the journalist and author. ![]() The pupils were beaten with canes, and it drained my confidence. I associate them with travelling to my prep school, Grenham House, in Birchington, Kent, which I loathed - it was like a prison. However, my earliest memories of trains are not particularly fond ones. In other words, I would not be here today. Were it not for the railways that facilitated the family's emigration, my father would not have been born in Johannesburg and subsequently he would never have come to Britain where he studied medicine and met and married my English mother. They emigrated to South Africa at the end of the 19th Century in search of a better life. It became evident that the coming of the railways to the area of Russia where my grandparents lived had provided them with an escape route. A couple of years ago I appeared on Who Do You Think You Are?, the television show that investigates your ancestry. Trains have certainly been significant in my life. All aboard: David Suchet at Venice Station during his dream journey aboard the Orient Express ![]()
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