The Railway Children

Dinah Sheridan - Mrs. Waterbury
Bernard Cribbins - Albert Perks
William Mervyn - Old Gentleman
Iain Cuthbertson - Charles Waterbury
Jenny Agutter - Bobbie Waterbury
Sally Thomsett - Phyllis Waterbury
Gary Warren - Peter Waterbury
Peter Bromilow - Doctor
Gordon Whiting - Russian

Director Lionel Jeffries' adaptation of E. Nesbit's classic Edwardian story starring Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins has become a much-loved children's film with many pleasing touches to compensate for its meandering plot.

After their father (Ian Cuthbertson), a government official, is imprisoned on Christmas Day on suspicion of being a spy, a charge of treason, three children, Bobbie (Jenny Agutter), Phyllis (Sally Thomsett) and Peter (Gary Warren) find their lives change dramatically after they leave their comfortable middle-class home to go live in a Yorkshire country cottage with a railway line at the bottom of the garden. Their mother (Dinah Sheridan) was forced to make the move due to a reduced lack of income and the inevitable scandal resulting from their father’s imprisonment, but the children - ignorant of the situation - soon settle in to their new home and meet many new friends. Due to their mother’s illness the children befriend the proud yet kindly porter (Bernard Cribbins) and a wealthy train-travelling gentlemen (William Mervyn), they also meet a shabby-looking Russian author on the station platform during their adventures. Some of their new acquaintances volunteer to help prove their father's innocence before a tear jerking finale.