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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.

  1. 1
    London

    In a comfortable London house three children live an ordinary, happy life, until the night their father is taken away and everything changes.

  2. 2
    Three 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.

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The Railway Children Map: E. Nesbit's Journey