![]() ![]() The original film was carried by the young Jenny Agutter, whose beautiful speaking voice as narrator trying to make sense of her father’s disappearance captivated the world. So is a return more moving than a departure? It certainly can be, but you have to live through the desolation first. The 1970 film has just one scene of Daddy arriving home, in the fog of a steam train, and it still makes me sob every time. The 2022 sequel has three scenes of the new cohort of Railway Children – three second world war evacuees from Manchester, Lily, Pattie and Ted – waving goodbye to their soldier father as he departs for war, in the fog, never to return. Just to test my capacity to cry, having emerged dry-eyed from the new one, I came home and re-watched the original. It doesn’t help the cause of The Railway Children Return that the original 1970 Railway Children film is currently on iPlayer. ![]()
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