They were not Railway Children to begin with.
They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good d.
I don\'t suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook\'s, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud\'s.
They were not Railway Children to begin with