A childrens classic double bill an adaptation of e nesbits childrens classic the railway children follows the fortunes of a group of edwardian children whose father is wrongly jailed for treason exiled with their mother to a life of genteel poverty on the yorkshire moors they are soon drawn to the railway at the bottom of the garden and all kinds of adventures swallows and amazons is a classic childrens adventure yarn based on the arthur ransome book the story recounts the advent