Hercule Poirot British government, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister. Readers were told that the British authorities had learned of Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain members of Belgium's royal family. After the war Poirot became a private detective and began undertaking civilian cases. He moved into what became both his home and work address, Flat 203 at 56B Whitehaven Mansions. Hastings first visits the flat when he returns to England in June 1935 from Argentina in "The A.B.C. Murders", Chapter 1. The TV programmes place this in Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, in the wrong part of London. According
Whitehaven railway station by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). The LNWR station (formerly WJR) was replaced on 20 December 1874 by a new one named "Whitehaven Bransty"; it was jointly owned by the LNWR and the FR. This station had its name simplified to "Whitehaven" on 6 May 1968. The original buildings were demolished and replaced by a modern single-story ticket hall in the mid-1980s. The former goods yard site beyond and behind platform one is now occupied by a supermarket. The station formerly had four operational platforms, but today only two remain in use (the former platforms three and four