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As Brief Encounter was filmed during the final year of War World II, Carnforth station was chosen for the film set because the distance from South East England would permit sufficient warning of an air-raid attack so that the filming lights could be turned off to comply with wartime blackout restrictions.  The screenplay was adapted and based on Noel Coward’s 1935 half-hour one-act stage play "Still Life". It was expanded from  the original five short scenes set in the Refreshment Room of the fictional Milford Junction Railway Station.