The Railway Children (2000 film) The Railway Children (2000 film) The Railway Children is a 2000 drama television film based on the novel by E. Nesbit. It was broadcast for the first time in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2000. Shortly afterward, it was shown in the United States on the series "Masterpiece Theatre". Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis live a comfortable and carefree upper middle-class life in London with their parents. But when their father (Michael Kitchen), a senior civil servant, is arrested on a charge of treason and found guilty, they are forced to move with their mother to "Three Chimneys", a
The Railway Children Award for best Entertainment in 2011. The stage adaptation, produced by the National Railway Museum and York Theatre Royal, reopened in December 2014 in a new theatre behind London's Kings Cross station and is due to close on 8 January 2017. In 2011, Nesbit was accused of lifting the plot of the book from "The House by the Railway" by Ada J. Graves, a book first published in 1896 and serialised in a popular magazine in 1904, a year before "The Railway Children" first appeared. In both works the children's adventures bear remarkable similarities. At the climax Nesbit's characters use