Crunchyroll streams The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet

We often bemoan catalogue content added to Cruchyroll's streaming offering being locked to the US and Canada, but last night we found ourselves being offered up a classic OVA complete with UK availability.

The OVA in question is Leiji Matsumoto's 2007 four-episode offering The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet. Here's the blurb about the show:

In the distant future, the planets are now connected with a massive galactic railway system. The Galaxy Express 999 has crash landed on a mysterious planet. On board are The Conductor, Killian, Maetel, and Tetsuro, a ten year-old street urchin with a heart of gold. Now it’s up to the SDF Sirius Platoon to rescue them before the Herise Time Mystery—a rift in the deep axis of time and space—repeats.

You can find the OVA in its entirety at this Crunchyroll page.

In other Crunchyroll news, we're also seeing the new partnership with Funimation Entertainment bearing fruit, with Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash and the first season of Psycho-Pass coming to the service in subtitled form.

If you're still hungry for more hot streaming content, then we should also mention that the first episode of The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Those Awaiting a Star Part 1 is now streaming to the UK via Crunchyroll too, who will be bringing all three episodes of this manga-bundled prequel to The Ancient Magus' Bride animated by Studio WIT to their service as they become available.