The Railway Children (Ladybird Classics)

Travel Guide

Visit Yorkshire with The Railway Children

For fans of the story, this lovely book is easy to experience and visit in real life

It’s set in Yorkshire and despite it taking place around the time of the war, there is still many traces of the past.

Haworth

Normally associated with Jane Eyre and the Bronte Sisters, this town was also used in the filming of the story.

The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth was used as the location for Doctor Forrest’s surgery

Wycoller near Colne

The scenes of the children sitting on a bridge were filmed here

Mytholmes Tunnel near Haworth

Take a train ride here or just stand on a bridge and wave to the people on it just like in the story. This train line is the main setting for much of the story ant it’s also where the paper chase scene in the book takes place. Remember when they take off their petticoats to warn the train driver against a landslide? This was filmed around here too.The landslide sequence itself was filmed in a cutting on the Oakworth side of Mytholmes Tunnel and the fields of long grass where the children waved to the trains are situated on the Haworth side of the tunnel

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

Do not miss this! Go to the station at Oakworth, as this was the backdrop for the film. The tunnel used in the film is a lot shorter in reality as they built an extension just for the important scenes.

Three Chimneys

The house called “Three Chimneys” is in Oxenhope, just north of the Oxenhope railway station.