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Certificate U

Cast Jenny Agutter Dinah Sheridan Sally Thomsett Bernard Cribbins

Directors Lionel Jeffries

Screenwriters Lionel Jeffries

Running Time 108 minutes

The Railway Children
Sweet Jenny Agutter waving at steam trains, in this dated adaptation of the children's novel

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Plot
E. Nesbit’s beloved tale of three children shipped off to live in the country beside a railway line with their mother after their father is arrested on mysterious spying charges and they are left penniless. Yet, it proves the making of them, as they discover a way of helping their father from afar.

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