Twelve minutes
The Railway Station is a small country station at the end of a branch line. The ticket hall opens onto the platform, the waiting room has a stove that never quite heats it, and the café closes at ten. A footbridge crosses the tracks to the far platform, the luggage room is full of trunks nobody has claimed and the signal box looks over everything from the end of the line.
Timetables make for good alibis, and in a station everyone knows exactly when they were where.
How it plays
The platform and the footbridge are places you stand "on", and both are long and thin. A long room across a whole row means that once a person is placed there, nobody else can share that row anywhere on the board. Benches line the platform and can be sat on. Trunks and trolleys fill the luggage room and the yard.
Start where the board is narrowest. The signal box is usually tiny, and a clue that puts someone in it can solve a column at once.
