Dec 24: The Railway Children (1970) dir. Lionel Jeffries

There are many films which are classic children's films and this is definitely on the list. 

Directed by Lionel Jeffries who featured in a few classics himself.

Some classic quotes as well:

"Daddy, my daddy!"

"Get off the line Bobby!"

There's also some footage of some mass movement: a landslide which causes the cutting edge to collapse and lead to the children saving a train from derailment using their bloomers.


The Worth Valley Railway was the railway featured in the film.

I also highly recommend their excellent book The Making of The Railway Children by Jim Shipley which is a delightful and interesting read. For more information see https://kwvr.co.uk/shop/

This film looks at some of the locations - then and now...

There was also a poor follow up film earlier this year: