The Railway Children Full TV Movie 2000.
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The Railway Children is a
2000 drama television film based on the novel by
E. Nesbit. It was broadcast for the first time in the
United Kingdom on 23
April 2000. remake of the
Classic 1970 film for TV
Plot -
Roberta (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 and found guilty, they are forced to move with their mother to "three chimneys", a cold and rundown cottage in the country 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.
They become friends with the old gentleman (whose name is never revealed) who regularly takes the 9:15 down train. They ask him to assist them with food and medicine when Mother falls ill. He is happy to do so, although Mother is angry and embarrassed.
The children save the lives of passengers on a train by alerting them of a landslide; they'll give shelter to a
Russian dissident, Mr Szczepansky, and help to unite him with his family. They'll rescue Jim (
JJ Feild), a boarder at a nearby school, who is injured whilst participating in a paper chase.
Bobbie eventually discovers the truth of her father's absence, despite Mother's efforts to shield them from it, and appeals to the Old
Gentleman for his help. A
Director of the railway company with influential friends, he is able to help prove their father's innocence. The family is reunited.
A friendship and possible future romance between Jim and Bobbie is hinted at.
The area of
England to which the family move is not specified, but the railway scenes were filmed on the
Bluebell Line.