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The Railway Children

Three children are moved out of a comfortable London villa into a cold house beside a railway line, and nobody explains why Father did not come with them. You play Bobbie, the eldest, who works it out first and keeps it from the others. Eighteen chapters of waving at the 9.15, a landslip flagged down with red flannel petticoats, a birthday assembled for a porter, and a newspaper report cut out with Mother's scissors.

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Chapters

1. The Railway ChildrenThe Red Villa
2. After Father Went AwayThe Red Villa
3. At Three ChimneysThree Chimneys
4. Life at Three ChimneysThree Chimneys and the Goods Yard
5. After the Coal MineThree Chimneys and Station
6. Outside Mother's RoomThree Chimneys and the 9.15
7. The Old Gentleman's HamperThree Chimneys and the Railway
8. The Mended EngineStation and Three Chimneys
9. The Search ContinuesStation and Three Chimneys
10. After the LandslipStation and Three Chimneys
11. After the PresentationStation and Canal Bridge
12. After the Barge FireCanal and Three Chimneys
13. The Birthday GiftsThe Perks House
14. Remembering FatherThree Chimneys
15. The Secret KeptStation and Three Chimneys
16. The Missing HoundTunnel and Three Chimneys
17. Jim's Broken LegThree Chimneys
18. Jim at Three ChimneysRailway Fence, Station, and Three Chimneys

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