Mike Kenny's imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic created a huge stir and broke box office records when it was first staged – with real steam trains - at the National Railway Museum in York and then at Waterloo Station in London.

Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - a mother and three children - forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the anxieties and exhilarations of childhood with great tenderness and insight.

As Mike Kenny says of his remarkably faithful adaptation, 'You don't need a real train to perform this play… the most powerful prop is the imagination of the audience, the most effective tool the skill of the actors.'

Press Quotes 

'Lavish, warm-hearted... one of the very finest children's stories of the 20th century, and it is served superbly by Mike Kenny's adaptation'

Whatsonstage.com

 'This glorious adaptation... profoundly moving... it never for a moment runs out of steam'

Guardian

For more information about this production please contact the director via the email address artisticdirector@criteriontheatre.co.uk

This amateur production of 'The Railway Children' is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.