Danny Glover, Dermot Mulroney, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley in The Christmas Train (2017)

The Christmas Train

TV Movie2017• TV-G• 1h 39m
DramaRomance
⭐ 6.4 / 10(3,944)

A cynical journalist decides to take a train from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles for Christmas to get inspiration for a story in honor of his late father. He gets to know the other passengers and runs into an old flame while aboard.

Rated
TV-G
Runtime
1h 39m
Released
2017
Country
United States, Canada

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Release year: 2017

Storyline

A cynical journalist decides to take a train from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles for Christmas to get inspiration for a story in honor of his late father. He gets to know the other passengers and runs into an old flame while aboard.

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Did you know

• Heritage Hall in Vancouver, Canada was used as the interior of the train station in Washington, DC.

• In the first city at which they stop, the interior and exterior of the train station is shot at Pacific Central Station in Vancouver, Canada. Tom and Eleanor dance in the glass-domed entrance of the Pacific Centre Mall also in Vancouver, Canada. (The dome was demolished in 2020.)

• Aired as the eleventh of twenty-one original films in The Hallmark Channel's 2017 "Countdown to Christmas" lineup and is also the 256th presentation of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

User reviews

⭐ 7/10

The Stars and the Setting Put this One Over

šŸ‘ 29 Ā· 12/5/2017
⭐ 7/10

An Enjoyable Ride!

šŸ‘ 30 Ā· 11/26/2017
⭐ 7/10

Second chance romance with a big cast, set on the Christmas Train.

šŸ‘ 11 Ā· 11/9/2021

Technical specs

Sound mix
Stereo
Aspect ratio
16:9 HD
Color
Color

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