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Jenny's back on the railway tracks

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20000420
Author:ZOE WILLIAMS

ZOE WILLIAMS is still reduced to tears by Edith Nesbit's classic. She meets Jenny Agutter who, in the remake, is playing the mother of Bobbie, her original role

YOU see the train choo-chooing into the station, and sense the eerie silence, and watch the last passenger descend meaningfully onto the platform, and you can't believe you're going to do it. Not because you're 26 and you don't even cry when your mum shouts at you any more - because you've cried at this bit of the Railway Children so many times. You've heard Jenny Agutter breathily yelping "Daddy! It's my daddy!" more often than ...

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