Share The Railway Children tells the story of a mother and her three children who move to the countryside after their father disappears. Dame Jacqueline said: 'I've always loved E Nesbit's wonderful classic The Railway Children but I've also felt she wasn't quite fair to the youngest child Phyllis. 'All she can say about her is that 'she meant extremely well'. The Railway Children tells the story of a mother and her three children who move to the countryside after their father disappears 'I've reimagined the story from the youngest child's point of view. 'The Nesbit book is very much a fairy story where every problem is wondrously overcome by heroic mother and an old gentleman friend.