The Railway Children

Language: English (US)

Three London children are moved with their mother to a cottage in the country after their father is taken away without explanation, and make a life around the railway line at the bottom of the hill, waving at the trains and gradually working out what happened to him. Published in 1906, and among the most enduring English children's novels. Public domain in the EU (author died 1924). Source: Project Gutenberg.

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To my dear son Paul Bland, behind whose knowledge of railways my ignorance confidently shelters.

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