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Return trip for a railway child

The Railway Children Return is coming out this summer. What’s the difference between the versions you’ve done?

For each episode for the television series in 1968, they took the chapters of Edith Nesbit’s 1905 book. For the 1970 film, Lionel Jeffries, the director, kept the naivety of the book. In 2000, Catherine Morshead directed it for ITV and it was more gritty. It’s lovely to be able to play different things. In The Railway Children Return, the only link is

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