The Railway Children (TV film)

The Railway Children is a 2000 drama television film based on the novel by E. Nesbit. It was broadcast for the first time in the United Kingdom onApril 2000. Shortly afterward, it was shown in the United States on the series Masterpiece Theatre.

Whilst Mother Jenny Agutter 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 waving to the passengers. They become friendly with Perks, the cheerful station porter, but feel the wrath of the stationmaster when Peter is caught trying to steal coal to heat the house.They become friends with an old gentleman whose name is never revealed who regularly takes the 915 down train. They ask him to assist them with food and medicine when their mother falls ill. He is happy to do so, although Mother is angry and embarrassed. ........

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