History Series / TheLastTrain

* HumanPopsicle: The only reason our main cast survive the apocalyptic meteor strike is because Harriet panics and turns them into a bunch of accidental human popsicles. They spend most of the series searching for Ark the place of safety where the nations top scientists where stored as human popsicles.

* GasolineLastsForever: Mick's van has been locked up in a garage for about 15 years at a minimum, but it starts up after being refueled with a barrel of gasoline that has been sitting there for the same amount of time and having the battery recharged with a gas-powered generator. Lampshaded with dialog about how "it will never start" and Mick expounding about how durable the engine is as he starts it up, which doubles as a bit of ProductPlacement for Mercedes' cargo van.

* Determinator: Harriet who starts off obsessed with reaching the military base where her boyfriend was supposed to wait for her then later becomes obsessed in finding Ark the underground research facility where all the human popsicles where stored.

* ChasedByNatives: The group spend a lot of time being chased by another group of survivors who appear to have regressed into a more primitive and savage society.

* FramingDevice: Each episode begins and ends with voice over of Anita writing in her diary except for the last episode where she has been carried off by Hild people so Leo provides the voice-over/diary entry in her place.

* KilledOffForReal: Happens to one of the main cast half way through the series.
* KarmaHoudini: Colin is this. At first he is merely a coward who contributes nothing of value to the group and has no problem telling lies to gain sympathy and make himself appear more likeable. But as the series goes on he engages in more reprehensible stuff like attempted sexual assault and cowardly leaving others to die out of jealousy yet never suffers any comeuppance for his actions.

* TokenRomance: The romance that develops between Mick and Roe is this. They could have just remained good friends and the plot would not have changed at all. Its also a case of comforting the widow when you consider that Mick lost his girlfriend in the meteor strike.

''The Last Train'', known as ''Cruel Earth in Canada'', is a six part drama made in 1999 about a diverse group of people struggling to adapt to life in post apocalyptic Britain after having been accidentally frozen for an indeterminate period of time.

* ApocalypseHow: The series is set in Britain which seems to have undergone a societal collapse and possible species extinction following a meteor strike. Presumably the rest of the world was affected in a similar way but its never confirmed.

* ChasedByNatives: The group spend a lot of time being chased by another group of survivors who appear to have regressed into a more primitive and savage socioty.

* Determinator: Harriet who starts off obsessed with reaching the military base where her boyfriend was supposed to wait for her then later becomes obssesed in finding Ark the underground research facility where all the human popsicles where stored.
* FramingDevice: Each episode begins and ends with voice over of Anita writing in her diary except for the last episode where she has been carried off by Hild people so Leo provides the voice over/diary entry in her place.

The Last Train, known as Cruel Earth in Canada, is a six part drama made in 1999 about a diverse group of people struggling to adapt to life in post apocalyptic Britain after having been accidentally frozen for an indeterminate period of time.

!Provides examples of:

* WhamShot: Thinking they've been asleep a few months, the train passengers hit the road to find survivors. As they leave a ruined town, the camera zooms in on a faded grave with the year of death marked 2015...and as the train was frozen in 1999, this means they've been frozen for ''decades.''

* BabiesMakeEverthingBetter: All the survivors that the group come across take this view mostly because following the apocalypse there seems to have been fertility problems amongst the remaining population with miscarriages and stillborns being the norm.

* AnyoneCanDie: In the opening episode a couple of unnamed background characters die whilst the main cast remain remarkably lucky but then about halfway through the series one of our main cast gets killed off and during the last episode it looks like two others might have joined her. Reference to their survival is so vague that some veiwers thought they had died.
* ApocalypseHow: The series is set in Britain which seems to have undergone a sociotal collapse and possible species extinction following a meteor strike. Presumably the rest of the world was affected in a similar way but its never confirmed.
* BabiesMakeEverthingBetter: All the survivors that the group come accross take this view mostly because following the apocalypse there seems to have been fertility problems amongst the remaining population with miscarriages and stillborns being the norm.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Its slowly revealed that Jandra was fleeing an abusive husband. Made more painful by her childrens genuine love for their father and Leo being in denial about the bausive nature of his parents relationship accusing his mother of abandoning their father to die in the meteor strike.
* DepopulationBomb: The meteor strike causes widespread devestation and death and whilst isolated groups manage to survive by hiding underground or as human popsicles it seems that their descendants suffer from fertility problems and severe difficulty in carrying a child to term. As a result humans as a species are slowly dying.
* Determinator: Harriet who starts off obssessed with reaching the military base where her boyfriend was supposed to wait for her then later becomes obssessed in finding Ark the underground research facility where all the human popsicles where stored.

* KarmaHoudini: Colin is this. At first he is merely a coward who contributes nothing of value to the group and has no problem telling lies to gain sympathy and make himself appear more likeable. But as the series goes on he engages in more reprehensible stuff like attempted sexual assault and cowardly leaving others to die out of jelousy yet never suffers any comeupance for his actions.

* TokenRomance: The romance that develops between Mick and Roe is this. They could ahve just remained good friends and the plot would not have changed at all. Its also a case of comforting the widow when you consider that Mick lost his girlfriend in the meteor strike.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: This is Harriet in spades. Most of her dialogue is trying to encourage and persuade the others to join her in finding Ark and whenever the group look to have found someplace safe to settle down she sbotages it. Like poisoning the water supply at the abandoned farm cottage or pushing the cart with all their gear and supplies off a cliff because their almost at Ark and its slowing them down.