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• 2 •  The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Enrique Bernardou
• 7 • Introduction (The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 11 • The Strange Story of Engine Number 651 • (1902) • short story by Victor L. Whitechurch
• 25 • The Conductor's Story • (1889) • short story by Zoe Dana Underhill
• 45 • A Desperate Run • short story by uncredited [as by Anonymous]
• 51 • A Smoking Ghost • (1885) • short story by W. G. Kelly
• 59 • A Strange Night • (1897) • short story by L. G. Moberly
• 69 • The Tragedy in the Train • (1905) • short story by Charles H. Mansfield and Walter E. Mansfield [as by Huan Mee]
• 85 • The Man with the Cough • short story by Mary Louisa Molesworth (variant of "The Man with the Cough" 1894)
• 107 • Railhead • (1908) • short story by Perceval Landon
• 119 • The Barford Snake • (1909) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• 139 • A Ghost on the Train • (1968) • short story by Dinah Castle
• 149 • The Underground People • (1955) • short story by Rosemary Timperley
• 155 • A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube • (1919) • short story by T. G. Jackson
• 181 • In the Tube • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 201 • A Subway Named Möbius • short story by A. J. Deutsch (variant of A Subway Named Mobius 1950)
• 223 • The Last Train • (1964) • short story by Michael Vincent
• 231 • The Underground • (1985) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• 255 • A Short Trip Home • (1927) • novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 285 • The Companion • (1976) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 301 • Story Sources and Acknowledgements (The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways) • essay by uncredited