E. Nesbit · 1906 · rail
E. Nesbit's 1906 children's classic follows three siblings whose comfortable London life is upended when their father is wrongly imprisoned, and who build a new home beside a country railway. The route runs north from London to the Yorkshire line where the story unfolds.
- 1London
In a comfortable London house three children live an ordinary, happy life, until the night their father is taken away and everything changes.
- 2Three Chimneys
The family moves to Three Chimneys, a little house in the Yorkshire countryside beside a railway line, where Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis make the trains, and the people who run them, their whole world.