(Lest the film come over too right-on for Conservative Britain, Brocklehurst’s dialogue sometimes hedges its bets: “Churchill is undoubtedly a great man, but I wish he’d been a bit more supportive of us suffragettes,” Bobbie sighs at one point.) Joined in their hijinks by Bobbie’s naive grandson Thomas (Austin Haynes), the children encounter Abe (Kenneth Aikens), a teenage African-American soldier on the run from a military unit where racial abuse is rife, and agree to secretly shelter him - though there’s scarcely a doubt that Bobbie, a staunch liberal and proud feminist, would support them in their mission. These various winks to older viewers are worked into a simple adventure plot that does eventually take its own track, distinct from the more episodic framework of the original. Part sequel and part remake, “The Railway Children Return” abounds in such affectionate callbacks to its source, from recontextualized narrative details (once again, the children flag down a train with handmade signals) to regenerated characters like John Bradley’s friendly stationmaster. As local families step forward to shelter the children of their choosing, Lily, Pattie and Ted’s rescuer turns out to be none other than the grown-up Bobbie, played with twinkly benevolence by a returning Agutter, still living in the handsome farmhouse that her family settled in all those years ago. The original’s family dynamics are neatly mirrored in the new film’s appealing trio of siblings, with enterprising, tomboyish teen Lily (Beau Gadsdon, previously seen in “Rogue One” and “The Crown”) assuming responsibility for rebellious Pattie (Eden Hamilton) and sensitive baby brother Ted (Zac Cudby) when they arrive in the peaceful West Yorkshire village of Oakworth - where “The Railway Children” first unfolded - with a garrulous gaggle of fellow waifs. The film wastes no time establishing these emotional stakes, opening on a suitably wrenching scene of tearful parent-child farewells at a Manchester train station, and making an early attack on viewers’ tear ducts. Here, the youngsters in question are among the legions of child evacuees transported from their urban homes to relative rural safety from WWII aerial bombings. In “The Railway Children,” the three Waterbury siblings - led by headstrong Bobbie, played by the then-teenaged Jenny Agutter - were plunged into relative poverty and moved from London following the arrest of their upper-class father. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order.The shift is a canny one, however, with the Second World War milieu giving the filmmakers an obvious reason to essentially recycle the first film’s premise of city kids adapting and exploring when relocated to the Yorkshire countryside. If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days). You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. To reflect the policies on the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.Īll orders placed after midday Friday will be despatched the following MondayĪll orders will be delivered Free of charge using Royal mail 2nd class postage unless otherwise requestedĪdditional postage services are available, and these are detailed when you go to checkout The weight of any such items can be found on its detail page. Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight based. When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. We are unable to ship to international destinations.
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