Description: MAKE OFFER FOR EACH ADDITIONAL VHS TAPE PURCHASED AT THE SAME TIME through me for $ 2.00 per additional VHS tape. The Railway Children is a 2000 drama television film based on the 1906 novel by E. Nesbit. It was broadcast for the first time in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2000 (which was Easter Sunday). Shortly afterwards, it was shown in the United States on the series Masterpiece Theatre.PlotRoberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis live a comfortable and carefree upper middle-class life in London with their parents. But when their father (Michael Kitchen), a senior civil servant, is arrested on a charge of treason, found guilty, and imprisoned for life they are forced to move with their mother to Three Chimneys, a cold and run-down country cottage near a railway.Whilst Mother (Jenny Agutter) tries to make a meagre living writing stories and poems she hopes magazines and newspapers will publish, the children seek amusement by watching the trains on the nearby railway line (the fictional Great Northern and Southern Railway) and waving to the passengers. They become friendly with Perks, the cheerful station porter, but feel the wrath of the stationmaster when Peter is caught trying to steal coal to heat the house. Occasionally the children quarrel, but they always call "pax" (a truce) and remain good-natured.They become friends with an aristocratic old gentleman (whose name is never revealed) by waving to him on the 9:15 down train that he takes regularly. They ask him to assist them with food and medicine when their mother falls ill. He is happy to do so, although Mother is angry and humiliated.The children save the lives of passengers on a train by alerting the driver to a landslide; they give shelter to a Russian dissident, Mr Szczepansky, and help to reunite him with his family. They rescue Jim (JJ Feild), a student at a nearby boarding school, who is injured whilst taking part in a paper chase along the rail line.Bobbie eventually discovers the truth of her father's absence, despite her mother's efforts to shield the children from it, and appeals to the old gentleman for help. As a director of the railway company with influential friends, he is able to help prove their father's innocence. The family is reunited.There are hints of a possible future romance between Jim and Bobbie and the father takes over control of the railway from the old gentlemen.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Signal Standard: NTSC
Rating: G
Former Rental: No
Sub-Genre: British Drama
Director: Catherine Morshead
Leading Role: Jenny Agutter, Richard Attenborough
Studio: Carlton International
Edition: Promo
Special Features: Academy Screener FYC Studio Promo edition
Language: English
Actor: Jenny Agutter, Richard Attenborough, Jamima Rooper, Michael Kitchen, Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas
Genre: Children's & Family
Movie/TV Title: The Railway Children
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom