The table of contents shows that the last story in that book is called "End of the Line." I don't know if that's the story I have in mind, but the title certainly fits as it suggest a subway or trolley line. Today I was looking back at some old posts I made on other sites, and recalled that I had taken a collection of short stories by Ramsey Campbell out of the library - "Alone With the Horrors". In the end he remembers having killed his own child by suffocating him with plastic, but he had blocked out the memory because of his guilt and horror at the act. He gets a look at the people and sees that they also have no faces (or their faces are covered with plastic). At some point later, there are people pursuing him, and he's trying to hide. There seems to be some kind of clear plastic over their faces. But they turn out to be only mannequins, and they have no faces. He's walking around, looking for people, when he thinks he sees some people in a store window. The story was about a man who arrives in an empty section of a city by public transit. Although I don't remember the story title or author's name, I do remember that the story in question was the very last one in the book. Several years ago I read a short story in an anthology, or possibly a collection by the same author.
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