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Film: The Railway Children (1970)

on BBC One London

The feature film starring Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins with William Mervyn, Sally Thomsett, and Gary Warren
'... they were not railway children to begin with ... they were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their father and mother in an ordinary redbrickfronted villa ...'
E. Nesbit 's famous story is brought to the screen in Lionel Jeffries ' enchanting film which perfectly captures the magic of the book.
Contributors
Screenplay By: Lionel Jeffries
Based on the Novel By: E. Nesbit
Produced By: Robert Lynn
Directed By: Lionel Jeffries.
Mother: Dinah Sheridan
Perks: Bernard Cribbins
Old gentleman: William Mervyn
Father: Iain Cuthebertson
Bobbie: Jenny Agutter
Phyllis: Sally Thomsett
Doctor: Peter Bromilow
Ruth: Ann Lancaster
Peter: Gary Warren
Russian: Gordon Whiting
Aunt Emma: Beatrix MacKey
Mrs Perks: Deddie Davies
Bandmaster: David Lodge
Jim: Christopher Witty

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