![]() ![]() They become friendly with Perks, the cheerful station porter, but feel the wrath of the stationmaster when Peter is caught trying to steal coal to heat the house. Whilst Mother ( Jenny Agutter) tries to make a meagre living writing stories and poems she hopes magazines and newspapers will publish, the children seek amusement by watching the trains on the nearby railway line (the fictional Great Northern and Southern Railway) and waving to the passengers. ![]() But when their father ( Michael Kitchen), a senior civil servant, is arrested on a charge of treason, found guilty, and imprisoned for life they are forced to move with their mother to Three Chimneys, a cold and run-down country cottage near a railway. Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis live a comfortable and carefree upper middle-class life in London with their parents. ![]()
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