The Girl on the Train arrives on the same platform as these 7 great thrillers

Can The Girl on the Train live up to the high standard set by these great thrillers set on trains?

Updated on: Oct 13, 2016 1:36 PM IST

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Can The Girl on the Train live up to the high standard set by these great thrillers set on trains?

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The Lady Vanishes (1938) - While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train. (IMDb)

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Transsiberian (2008) - A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travellers. (IMDb)

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Snowpiercer (2013) - Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges. (IMDb)

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Unstoppable (2010) - With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe. (IMDb)

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Strangers on a Train (1951) - A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder - a theory that he plans to implement. (IMDb)

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Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. (IMDb)

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Runaway Train (1985) - Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving. (IMDb)

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The Girl on the Train (2016) - A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. (AP)