From its fantastical writing to its bizarre Foundations sing-along, BBC’s new thriller series set on a train is barely staying on the rails Joe Cole as Joe Roag in Nightsleeper We join Joe Cole at a train station, with a helpful caption telling us that Glasgow to London is 410 miles away and takes 316 minutes. Because it sounded like the start of a question in a maths exam, I was a tad uneasy, but I had deduced that we were probably in Glasgow..