Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
- world war ii
- sequel
- yorkshire
- train
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jenny Agutter
Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury
Sheridan Smith
Annie Waterbury
Tom Courtenay
Uncle Walter
Beau Gadsdon
Lily Watts
- KJ Aikens — Abe
- Austin Haynes — Thomas Waterbury
- Eden Hamilton — Pattie Watts
- Zac Cudby — Ted Watts
- John Bradley — Richard Perks
- Hugh Quarshie — General Harrison
- Hannah Wood — Miss Eckersley
- Oscar Wallwork — Jimmy
- Neil Hurst — Teacher
- Jessica Baglow — Angela
- Joseph Richards — Georgie Duckworth
- Directed
- Morgan Matthews
- Written
- Daniel Brocklehurst
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 266 ratings
- Studio
- StudioCanal UK
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1970The Railway Children
Where it starts.
The Railway Children Return
2022 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
