TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nesbit,E.
AU  - Brock,C.E.
TI  - The railway children
SN  - 9780349009322
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Virago Press
KW  - Action and adventure fiction
KW  - Country life
KW  - England
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Railroads
KW  - History 19th century
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Siblings
N1  - Primary
N2  - When their father is suddenly taken away, the children's lives change overnight. Unable to afford their London home, the family must move to a small cottage in the Yorkshire countryside. Hiding their sadness from their mother, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis roam the fields all day. Every morning they can be seen waving as the 9.15 train roars past, imagining that it will can carry their love to their father, wherever he may be. The trio become a familiar sight and their bravery and quick-thinking avert a railway disaster. There is a kind old gentleman passenger never fails to wave back - little do the children realise how much his friendship will mean to them, especially in solving the mystery to their father's disappearance
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