

The Railway Children
1968 · BBC One · 25 min · 1 season
S01E07 · The Meeting
Sun, 23 June, 9:00 pm
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.
About
The Railway Children concerns a family who move to "Three Chimneys", a house near the railway, after the father, who works at the Foreign office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited.
Episodes
- E01
The Visitors
Sun, 12 May· 25 minDuring 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?
- E02
The Coalminers
Sun, 19 May· 25 minNow 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.
- E03
The Message
Sun, 26 May· 25 minMother is taken ill and the children get a message of help to a kindly old gentleman on the train, who sends her a hamper.
- E04
The Foreign Gentleman
Sun, 2 June· 25 minMother 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.
- E05
The Secret
Sun, 9 June· 25 minMother 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.
- E06
The Rescue
Sun, 16 June· 25 minThe children are rewarded by the railway company, and they soon need their courage again when a boy goes missing in the tunnel.
- E07
The Meeting
Sun, 23 June· 25 minThe 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
Brian Hayes
Stationmaster

John Ringham
Dr. Forrest