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Year
1970
Duration
106 minutes
Genres
Family, Period and Historical
Language
English
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Adapted from the classic children’s novel by Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children is set in 1904, when three children from London move to the countryside after their father is falsely imprisoned. Faced with a change in lifestyle in rural Yorkshire, they find comfort in watching the trains go by. As they make friends in the community, they learn valuable lessons about dignity, bravery and resourcefulness. With an optimism that proves infectious, they never give up hope of freeing their father.
Watch The Railway Children on Into Film+ and discover a piece of archive film that we have added before the feature: Night Mail, a documentary archive film from 1936 released by the General Post Office Film Unit showing how letters were delivered from London to Scotland.
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