The Railway Children (1968)
The adventures of three children forced to move from London to Yorkshire when their father is imprisoned.
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Episode 1 - The Visitors
Release Date: 1968-05-12During 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?
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Episode 2 - The Coalminers
Release Date: 1968-05-19Now 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.
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Episode 3 - The Message
Release Date: 1968-05-26Mother is taken ill and the children get a message of help to a kindly old gentleman on the train, who sends her a hamper.
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Episode 4 - The Foreign Gentleman
Release Date: 1968-06-02Mother 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.
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Episode 5 - The Secret
Release Date: 1968-06-09Mother 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.
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Episode 6 - The Rescue
Release Date: 1968-06-16The children are rewarded by the railway company, and they soon need their courage again when a boy goes missing in the tunnel.
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Episode 7 - The Meeting
Release Date: 1968-06-23The children save Jim from the tunnel and take him home to be looked after. A train arrives at the station bringing some good news.