Film Review: The Railway Children Return brings the nostalgia - but falls short

"while the storyline is agreeably abrasive in the context of the nostalgia-fest, it all feels a little contrived"
Film Review: The Railway Children Return brings the nostalgia - but falls short

The Railway Children Return for declan burke caroline delaney

★★★☆☆

There’s a semantic debate to be had about The Railway Children Return (PG) — only one of the original children, Bobbie Waterbury, returns, and by now (1944) she’s a grandmother. The good news is that Bobbie is still played by Jenny Agutter, and that Bobbie remembers her own harrowing experience of being uprooted from her home and plonked down in a rural idyll. 

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