The Railway Children (2000)

Directors

Catherine Morshead

Cast

Jenny Agutter

The story

Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis live a comfortable and carefree upper middle-class life in London with their parents. But when their father (Michael Kitchen), a senior civil servant, is arrested on a charge of treason, found guilty, and imprisoned for life they are forced to move with their mother (Jenny Agutter) to Three Chimneys, a cold and run-down country cottage near a railway. Whilst Mother tries to make a meagre living writing stories and poems she hopes magazines and newspapers will publish, the children seek amusement by watching the trains on the nearby railway line (the fictional Great Northern and Southern Railway) and…

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