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Chris Leigh offers some final thoughts about a film and a book, and the weather, in a not-quite-a-review page.

Railway Children – all grown up The sad news of the death of Bernard Cribbins, Mr Perks in the 1970 movie The Railway Children, came just 24 hours after my grandchildren had taken me to see the eagerly awaited sequel, The Railway Children Return. It was his stellar performance and Lionel Jeffries’ masterful direction, which had made the original movie the perennial classic that it now is. I would not normally write a film review, but as I have an ‘O’ gauge layout based on the original movie and I’m known as a big Jenny Agutter fan, I am going to pen a few words. I will try to avoid ‘spoilers’ relating to the story itself, which is very much for a 2020s audience rather than the 1970s audience of…

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Model Rail (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2022

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