Dramatisation of E Nesbit's classic novel about three children whose lives change dramatically after they move to a Yorkshire cottage near a railway line. Learning to fend for themselves in the absence of their father, the children make friends with the local station porter, and soon their lives begin to revolve around the railway. Jenny Agutter, who was Roberta in the 1972 film, plays the children's mother.
The Railway Children is a Film programme that first aired in 2000 and has been classified a U certificate.
