S01E01 The Visitors
During Peter’s birthday party, strangers arrive and take Father away. Mother says he has gone away on business - but when will he return and what will Mother and the children do?
The Railway Children
S01E03: The Message
Mother is taken ill and the children get a message of help to a kindly old gentleman on the train, who sends her a hamper.
Overview
Set in Yorkshire at the dawn of the 20th century, the comfortable lives of three Edwardian children are shattered when their father is arrested on suspicion of betraying state secrets. The children and their mother are forced to move to a modest cottage in the Yorkshire countryside, where their new lives centre around the local steam railway line.
Episodes
S01E02 The Coalminers
Now living in their new home in the country, without their father, the children befriend Perks at the local railway station and go ‘coalmining’ at the station stores.
S01E03 The Message
Mother is taken ill and the children get a message of help to a kindly old gentleman on the train, who sends her a hamper.
S01E04 The Foreign Gentleman
Mother and the children come to the aid of a distressed Russian gentleman who arrives at the station and Bobbie learns the truth about her father.
S01E05 The Secret
Mother tells Bobbie she must keep her secret from the other children. Later, the children discover a fallen tree on the line as the express train is due.
S01E06 The Rescue
The children are rewarded by the railway company, and they soon need their courage again when a boy goes missing in the tunnel.
S01E07 The Meeting
The children save Jim from the tunnel and take him home to be looked after. A train arrives at the station bringing some good news.
Cast
Ann Castle
Mother
Jenny Agutter
Roberta Faraday
Neil McDermott
Peter Faraday
Gillian Bailey
Phyllis Faraday
Gordon Gostelow
Perks
