Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children

One of the best loved family classics of all time is brought to the stage in an exciting production.

Steam engines and great adventures abound in this tale of three children who, when their father is mysteriously taken away, are forced to leave the comfort of middle-class London for a new life in the countryside. Each day Roberta, Peter and Phyllis run down the field to the railway track and wave at the passing London train, sending their love to father.

Little do they know that the kindly old gentleman traveller who waves back holds the key to their father’s disappearance

Theatre World Magazine

‘It was a week I was glad to be British. A golden glow of nostalgia seeps off the stage and into the auditorium. It’s sweet, it’s funny, it’s a perfect introduction to theatre and to children’s literature’

Westmorland Gazette

‘A good piece of theatre should transport the audience into a believable and consistent world despite the limitations of stage and audience format. Ali Gorton’s production of The Railway Children achieved that superbly’

Plymouth Extra

‘An enchanting revisiting of the story’

Eastern Evening News

‘The Railway Children steamed into Norwich Theatre Royal last night with clouds of atmospheric steam and just the sort of childlike innocence and fun remembered from the book and film. James the dog stole every scene he was in. This wonderfully life-like puppet sniffed out food, resisted bath time and had the audience eating out of his paws.’