PARENT PREVIEWS: RAILWAY CHILDREN PARENT GUIDE
September 29, 2022
"It’s 1944 and German bombs are falling on British cities. The Watts siblings, Lily, Pattie, and Ted (played by Beau Gadsdon, Eden Hamilton, and Zac Cudby) are evacuated to the safety of the Yorkshire countryside where they wind up with the family of Bobbie Waterbury, her schoolmistress daughter, and her grandson, Thomas (played by Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith, and Austin Haynes). The Watts siblings are homesick, but Thomas and his family are welcoming, and the visitors soon settle into their peaceful rural surroundings.
There is little peace on the nearby American military base. Tensions between black and white soldiers have flared up, and military police are beating black soldiers who socialize with white women in the adjacent town. Injured and unwilling to risk further attacks, young Private Abraham McCarthy (Kenneth Aikens) goes on the run and stumbles across a hideout used by Thomas and his new friends. Sure enough, Abe is found by Pattie, and the children are drawn into America’s racial quagmire."
