MOVIE · 1970
The Railway Children
DramaFamily109 min
After their family is suddenly uprooted from London, three children move with their mother to a cottage in the countryside and find their new world centered on the nearby railway. Bobbie, Phyllis, and Peter spend their days watching trains, making friends at the station, and turning small adventures into missions of their own. As they settle into country life, the line brings strangers, secrets, and chances to help people in trouble. Dinah Sheridan is the mother holding the family together, while Jenny Agutter’s Bobbie begins to see that the railway connects not just places, but the hidden troubles shaping their home.
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