snake around the galaxy and connect many interplanetary systems together. Railsea (book) by China Miéville – a fantasy novel that features railway tracks that represent oceans and sea called Railsea and features giant moles ("moldywarpes") that represent whales and boat-like trains. It parodies Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The Railway Series – British stories about a fictional railway by Rev. W. Awdry, which would later be adapted into the children's show Thomas and Friends. Raising Steam – the 40th Discworld novel features the first steam locomotive on Discworld called Iron Girder. Red Mars – the first book in the Mars Trilogy features a train that goes around the circumference of the moon and travels fast enough to generate rotational gravity, relieving the difficulties of living in microgravity and allowing colonists to acclimate before moving down to the Martian surface colonies. Silver on the Tree, the last book in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising cycle – approaching the climax of the story, the main characters travel on a mystical train to the final battle between the Light and the Dark. Starcross (novel) – the second novel in the Larklight series features a space railway in the Asteroid Belt made by the same company that built the Crystal Palace. Strangers on a Train (novel, film) – tells the story of how two strangers meet on a train and decide to exchange murders so they can't be tied to each other. The Thirty-Nine Steps – (book by John Buchan, films, one by Alfred Hitchcock) features a sequence where the character Richard Hannay escapes from the police by jumping from a train on the Forth Bridge in Scotland. The Trackman (book) – by Karl Davis – a police procedural crime novel set in Hull, London, Newcastle and the home counties. The main character (Det. Sgt Joe Tenby) hunts a deranged serial killer who is targeting people connected to the railway network. Via Bodenbach, an experimental novel about a train journey to Berlin by Hungarian novelist Ferenc Körmendi, published in 1932 and widely translated. Wheelworld – the second novel in the To the Stars (trilogy) set in an agricultural colony on a planet with very extreme seasons, causing the entire colony to escape the brutal summers twice per year by turning into a mobile colony. This is accomplished by jacking up the colony's main buildings on wheels, forming them up behind the colony's nuclear power plants