Seasons
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.
The children are rewarded by the railway company, and they soon need their courage again when a boy goes missing in the tunnel.
Mother 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.
Mother 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.
Mother is taken ill and the children get a message of help to a kindly old gentleman on the train, who sends her a hamper.
Now 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.
Description
At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
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Genres
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CastAnn CastleJenny AgutterNeil McDermottGillian BaileyGordon Gostelow
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Channel
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Premiere DateMay 12, 1968
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Rating5.5 (2)
