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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 (Voted 96th in the BFI 100 Greatest British Television Programmes poll of 2000), 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 was Jeffries first feature and is unusual in that at the end the cast assemble to perform a curtain call. Also a voice can be heard shouting "Thank you Mr. Forbes" as an acknowledgement to Bryan Forbes who put up a security for the film to be completed.

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.

In October of 1999 the film was remade for ITV at the Bluebell Railway with Agutter now playing the role of the children's mother.

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