From BBC.com ...

Jenny Agutter to reprise Railway Children role in film sequel
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Classic children's film The Railway Children is to receive a
sequel, more than 50 years after the original.

Sheridan Smith will star alongside Jenny Agutter, who is
reprising her role as Bobbie Waterbury.

The iconic Keighley & Worth Valley Railway from the original
film will also feature.

Shooting on The Railway Children Return will begin on Monday,
led by Bafta-winning director Morgan Matthews. The film is
due in cinemas on 1 April 2022.

The original film was based on the novel by E Nesbit about
three children who are shipped off to live in the country
beside a railway line after their father is arrested on
mysterious spying charges.

Agutter played the eldest child in a 1968 TV adaptation,
followed by the film two years later. She also played the
mother in an ITV remake in 2000.

Now 68, in recent years she has played Sister Julienne in
the BBC's Call the Midwife.

The 1970 film became a massive hit and earned three Bafta
nominations. It currently holds a "100% fresh" rating on
Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 critics' review.

The sequel will follow a group of children who are evacuated
to a Yorkshire village during World War Two, where they
encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far from home.

Tom Courtenay will also appear, with the script by Danny
Brocklehurst, whose credits include TV shows like Brassic,
Accused, Clocking Off and Shameless.

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