The Railway Children
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The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit.
The story concerns a family who move from London to a rural area after the father is falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians and imprisoned for five years. The three children, two girls and a boy, find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers. They become friendly with Perks, the station porter, and with an elderly gentleman who regularly takes the train. He is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited.
Films
After a successful BBC dramatisation of the 1960s, the film rights were bought by Lionel Jeffries, and the 1970 film was a great success. The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and its station at Oakworth were used as location.
The film starred Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins (who ad libbed most of his performance). In 2004 the magazine Total Film named it the 46th greatest British film of all time.
The film was later remade for ITV with Agutter now playing the role of the children's mother.
External links
- Template:Gutenberg
- HTML text with original illustrations, at Indiana (http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/railway.html)
- IMDb entry -- 1957 TV series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392991/)
- IDDb entry -- 1968 TV series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244750/), and 1970 Film release (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066279/)
- 2000 TV series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215111/)Template:Lit-stub