The Railway Children
Three London children are moved with their mother to a bare cottage beside a country railway line after two men call one evening and take their father away, and nobody will say why. Poverty, a paperchase in a tunnel, a landslide and a Russian exile fill their days, and each morning they wave at the 9.15 in the hope somebody aboard carries the greeting on. Nesbit keeps the reason for the family's fall from the children and from the reader.
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