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The Railway Children

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The Railway Children	comment	Classic British children's novel by E. Nesbit, first published in 1905.Three children, Roberta (aka "Bobbie"), Peter and Phyllis Waterbury, relocate with their mother to the country after their civil servant father is arrested on charges of espionage for the Russians. Their cottage is near the railway and they make friends with some of the people involved.Oh, and they prevent a rail accident by use of red petticoats.Adapted for stage and screen a number of times. The stage version performed at a new purpose-built theatre at King's Cross Station in London in 2015 featured an actual steam locomotive.In 2021, Jacqueline Wilson published a modern take on the tale called The Primrose Railway Children, told from the perspective of Phoebe Robinson, a twenty-first century version of Phyllis Waterbury.In 2022, a sequel film was released, which saw the return of Jenny Agutter as Bobbie, set during the Second World War (Peter is explicitly confirmed to have died, and Phyllis is referenced in a manner that leaves it open if she is dead or simply elsewhere).Not to be confused with The Boxcar Children.
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The Railway Children / int_124d7bce	type	Intimate Hair Brushing
The Railway Children / int_124d7bce	comment	Intimate Hair Brushing: A rare Pet the Dog moment for Ruth the maid is when she's shown brushing Phyllis's hair before bed.
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The Railway Children / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Railway Children / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Not entirely "unreliable," but several things which are clear to an adult reader are just skipped over or ignored by the children. Justified since they are, well, children.
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The Railway Children / int_1d2605eb	type	Adorably Precocious Child
The Railway Children / int_1d2605eb	comment	Adorably Precocious Child: Phyllis who Bobbie describes as "she means well" but is prone to coming out with odd things.
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The Railway Children / int_1f52ab08	type	Unreveal Angle
The Railway Children / int_1f52ab08	comment	Unreveal Angle: When the mother is ill, the children write to the old gentleman. Although the book tells that they have asked for things to make their mother better, the film does not, and the next scene is Perks delivering a large hamper to the Three Chimneys. When the children open the hamper, their cries of delight are heard, but the view of the contents is blocked by the lid, and is never shown.
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The Railway Children / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
The Railway Children / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Bobbie slowly starts to realise that her mother is trying to keep the family together and make ends meet after Father is taken away.
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The Railway Children / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Railway Children / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The film conveniently shows Phyllis and Bobbie wearing their red petticoats a couple of scenes before they're actually needed.
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The Railway Children / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Railway Children / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Most of the engines in the film adaptations are post-1905.
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The Railway Children / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Railway Children / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: The children's father is taken away over Christmas and they are told he is away on business. It's later revealed he was falsely accused of treason and thrown in prison.
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The Railway Children / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
The Railway Children / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Both the girls. Roberta is called "Bobbie" and Phyllis is often just called "Phil".
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The Railway Children / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Railway Children / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The Old Gentleman, who is influential enough to help secure their father's release. His name is not given, but it's strongly implied that he is the Prime Minister.
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The Railway Children / int_455c710d	type	Gag Echo
The Railway Children / int_455c710d	comment	Gag Echo: In their first morning at Three Chimneys, they find the apple pie Mrs Viney left for them to have the previous night. They express surprise that they're to have supper for breakfast. When Mrs Viney arrives, she says "I see you've found the supper I left for you. Curious time to have it though."
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The Railway Children / int_4968ed35	type	Door-Closes Ending
The Railway Children / int_4968ed35	comment	Door-Closes Ending: The book ends with the children's father reuniting with his family, a reunion which the readers are not privy to as the door to the house is closed once he gets in.
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The Railway Children / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Railway Children / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Plenty of beautiful shots of the English countryside. Yorkshire is a beautiful place, and the filmmakers want you to know it.
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The Railway Children / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
The Railway Children / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Mother is a writer and she sells stories to make extra cash. At one point, there's a Take That! when it's mentioned that the editors aren't always "sensible" and sometimes don't publish her stories. Which is surely not a jab at her own editors.
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The Railway Children / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Railway Children / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the beginning of the story, after Father is taken away, Phyllis muses to Bobbie how much they've always wished something would happen "like in books." Towards the end of the story (the thirteenth chapter) Peter starts talking to his mother about how nice it would be if this were all one of the mother's stories.
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The Railway Children / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
The Railway Children / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Edith Nesbit's socialist politics make an appearance in the plot from time to time, from Perks' discussion of British politics to the Old Gentleman's praise of Szezcpansky, an exiled Russian intellectual who had been imprisoned in Siberia for his "fine book".
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The Railway Children / int_5714d5c	type	Sneakers of Sneaking
The Railway Children / int_5714d5c	comment	Sneakers of Sneaking: The station master wears an old pair of sand shoes which he had worn at the seaside, to lie in wait for Peter stealing coal.
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The Railway Children / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
The Railway Children / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: When the children want to get the attention of the old gentleman who travels on the train every day, they make a sign beside the railway saying "Look out at the station". Did they mean "Beware at the station"? Fortunately, the sign has the right effect, and people do look out of the train, including the old gentleman.
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The Railway Children / int_5dcb9d92	type	Less Embarrassing Term
The Railway Children / int_5dcb9d92	comment	Less Embarrassing Term: Peter calls it "mining" rather than stealing, when he takes coal from the middle of the coal heap at the station.
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The Railway Children / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Railway Children / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Bobbie notes that the Russian gentleman looks like he's been crying, and she feels sorry for him. She's even annoyed when the doctor looks like he wants to laugh.
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The Railway Children / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Railway Children / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Like many of Edith Nesbit's children's stories, this one shows children dealing with sudden poverty as well as the loss of a parent.
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The Railway Children / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
The Railway Children / int_687c78ff	comment	Railroad Tracks of Doom: The aforementioned red petticoat incident and the part where the boy in the red jersey gets injured inside a tunnel. The second one fortunately doesn't involve a race against a train.
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The Railway Children / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
The Railway Children / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: Nesbit sometimes addresses the readers directly, such as when she gets tired of calling Bobbie by her full name and later discusses her qualities with the readers, admitting how fond she's growing of her. At another time she says she won't write a speech down word-for-word because the readers would find it dull and refuses to give the Old Gentleman's real name because that's who he is to the children.
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The Railway Children / int_7128c5cd	type	Laborious Laces
The Railway Children / int_7128c5cd	comment	Laborious Laces: A Running Gag is that Phyllis's bootlaces keep coming undone, causing the children to be in a hurry.
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The Railway Children / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
The Railway Children / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: The family become this after Father is taken away. They end up moving to a nice house in the countryside, with a woman hired as a cleaning lady. They can't however afford medicine or too many luxuries.
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The Railway Children / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
The Railway Children / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: The book is essentially the day-to-day life of the children once they get to the countryside.
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The Railway Children / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Railway Children / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Implied with the mother, especially in the film. One scene has Bobbie coming downstairs and hearing her mother crying in the living room. The ITV version, too, with Jenny Agutter as the mother. Bobbie does the same after learning of her father's fate, not sharing the news with her siblings.
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The Railway Children / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
The Railway Children / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Since Mother is usually busy writing stories in the house, the children are free to wander around the area.
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The Railway Children / int_860ca0d9	type	Losing Horns
The Railway Children / int_860ca0d9	comment	Losing Horns: A whole scene in the 1970 film is accompanied by a "wah wah" Leit Motif. Perks has to deliver a massive hamper to the Three Chimneys, and has to get through a very narrow stile with great difficulty. He does this by balancing the hamper and his hat on top of the stile, and squeezing underneath.
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The Railway Children / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
The Railway Children / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Bobbie in the sense of being very perceptive and quick-thinking. Mother is also a writer, and good enough to sell many stories. She also speaks French and acts as a tutor to her children.
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The Railway Children / int_87e2b631	type	Two Girls and a Guy
The Railway Children / int_87e2b631	comment	Two Girls and a Guy: Girls Bobbie and Phyllis, guy Peter.
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The Railway Children / int_89fcfa0b	type	Cute Clumsy Girl
The Railway Children / int_89fcfa0b	comment	Cute Clumsy Girl: Phyllis, who is always knocking things over or tripping on her bootlaces.
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The Railway Children / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Railway Children / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: A porter jokes about reprimanding the grammar school boys for running through the tunnel. Becomes less funny when Jim gets trapped in the tunnel and nearly loses his leg to a train.
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The Railway Children / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Railway Children / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Peter's engine breaking coincides with the family being split up, and foreshadows their eventual situation living by the railway.
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The Railway Children / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Railway Children / int_958f1f57	comment	Maiden Aunt: Aunt Emma, who is unmarried, and is off to India to become a governess.
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The Railway Children / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Railway Children / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Used by the locals to contrast with the RP of the Waterburys.
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The Railway Children / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
The Railway Children / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Both of the Waterbury parents but Mother gets most of the emphasis, since the father is absent. Not only is she a kind and patient mother but she's also good fun, making up poems and stories to entertain her children. The children's father meanwhile is described as "never cross, never unjust, and always ready for a game."
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The Railway Children / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Railway Children / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The dreamy scene of Bobbie getting her birthday presents suddenly turns bittersweet when she says "wouldn't Daddy have loved this?"
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The Railway Children / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Railway Children / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: The Old Gentleman.
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The Railway Children / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Railway Children / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: There's a bit of a Culture Clash between the Waterburys and the country people. Mrs Viney leaves the key under the mat because that's what everyone does and she has no reason to believe the Waterburys wouldn't know. The children also get presents for Perks' birthday, not thinking he'd see it as charity.
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The Railway Children / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Railway Children / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Phyllis and Peter get this at times. When Pete gets caught stealing coal Phyllis remarks "at least we can burn the evidence".
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The Railway Children / int_b3f0fc91	type	Track Trouble
The Railway Children / int_b3f0fc91	comment	Track Trouble: The children see a landslide which blocks part of the train tracks. They rush to warn the incoming train of the danger ahead, successfully preventing it from crashing.
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The Railway Children / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Railway Children / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The two men who arrive to arrest the children's father have a moment of this between themselves while they wait at the front door.
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The Railway Children / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Railway Children / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: The children always have the right tools on hand to save the day: The red petticoats the girls wore were used to save a train from running into a landslide. Peter's stamp collection was in his pocket when they needed to figure out which country Szezcpansky was from. Phyllis had a shuttlecock in her pocket when they needed to burn feathers to revive Jim, the young man who tripped in the tunnel and hurt his leg.
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The Railway Children / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
The Railway Children / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: For the father.
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The Railway Children / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
The Railway Children / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Bobbie Waterbury, via clever use of red petticoats, manages to prevent a train from careening into a landslide, but has to stand on the tracks to do so. The train finally manages to stop just inches in front of her, and she very understandably collapses in a dead faint. Jenny Agutter's rendition of the scene in the 1970 Film of the Book is iconic.
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The Railway Children / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Railway Children / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Mother and Father's names are never revealed.
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The Railway Children / int_cbf5c04	type	Insult of Endearment
The Railway Children / int_cbf5c04	comment	Insult of Endearment: Peter thinks nothing of calling Bobbie silly and doesn't consider it as insulting her.
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The Railway Children / int_d13a03f0	type	Everybody Cries
The Railway Children / int_d13a03f0	comment	Everybody Cries: In the book, when Mother finds out how the children asked the Old Gentleman for the hamper, she is at first very angry, then she cries, and so do the children; and it all became a huge crying party.
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The Railway Children / int_d212847f	type	Key Under the Doormat
The Railway Children / int_d212847f	comment	Key Under the Doormat: It's remarked that everyone leaves their keys under there when the Waterburys arrive.
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The Railway Children / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Railway Children / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The old gentleman the children wave to on the train just happens to turn out to be Jim's grandfather. Phyllis lampshades this.
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The Railway Children / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Railway Children / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Bobbie and Jim, as the two are similar in age and he's the only young male she gets time with. He holds her hand as he departs on the train, promising to write.
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The Railway Children / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Railway Children / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The children invoke this as the old gentleman they only know by waving is asked for help several times and turns out to be quite important to the plot later on.
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The Railway Children / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
The Railway Children / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Perks is only called by his last name. Phyllis finds out his first name Albert so they can use it for his birthday.
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