《铁路边的孩子们》，一部感人至深的儿童小说，讲述了美好心灵和逆境成长的动人故事。一家人遭到变故，父亲蒙冤被捕，三个孩子随母亲从城市搬到铁路附近的乡下居住。孩子们理解母亲养育他们的艰辛和因父亲不在身边所饱受的心理痛苦，因而尽力安慰和帮助母亲。同时他们又热心关心和帮助别人。正因为这样，才引发了一系列的感人故事......
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《铁路边的孩子们》讲述的是一家人在困境中的生活故事，爸爸因被人陷害而被关进了监狱，妈妈独立支撑起整个家庭。但是整个故事让我们感受到的不是艰难困苦，而是妈妈努力维护的温馨生活，还有孩子们健康快乐的成长。就在这个铁路边，孩子们机智地避免了一场可怕的铁路灾难，救助了另一位在隧道中摔伤的少年，还扑灭了运河轮船上的火情，和妈妈一起收留了一位流亡的俄罗斯作家。他们高尚的行为赢得了所有人的尊重，最后又在好心人的帮助下为爸爸洗清了冤屈。
The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit first published in 1906. In this much-loved children's classic, the comfortable lives of a family with three children-Roberta, Peter and Phyllis-are greatly altered, when one evening two men arrive at the house and take their father away…
They had to leave their London home and move to the countryside and settle in a much smaller house which was quite messy. Their mother made a living by writing stories, articles, poems, etc. One day in search of a garden they land up behind their house only to find a railway track where they meet Perks, the porter. Every day they wave at the 9.15 train, since that train goes to London and, assuming their father was in London, they want to convey their good wishes.
They also befriend the station master and learn about engines. One day they notice that stones have fallen on to the railway line, so they wave a red flannel petticoat like a flag to stop the train, and thus avert the accident. They also prevent a house from catching fire and rescue a young boy who they find lying unconscious in the tunnel with a fractured leg. Once they saw three people coming out of the 11.54 train. Roberta quickly realises that the third man is their father, and the family is happily reunited
THE BEGINNING OF THINGS
They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zo?logical Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brickfronted 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 deal of white paint, and "every modern convenience", as the house-agents say.
There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never have favourites, but if their Mother had had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who meant extremely well.
Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull calls to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay calls to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions, such as the christening of the new kittens, or the refurnishing of the doll's house, or the time when they were getting over the mumps.
These three lucky children always had everything they needed: pretty clothes, good fires, a lovely nursery with heaps of toys, and a Mother Goose wall-paper. They had a kind and merry nursemaid, and a dog who was called James, and who was their very own. They also had a Father who was just perfect - never cross, never unjust, and always ready for a game - at least, if at any time he was not ready, he always had an excellent reason for it, and explained the reason to the children so interestingly and funnily that they felt sure he couldn't help himself.
You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know how happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed.
The dreadful change came quite suddenly.
Peter had a birthday - his tenth. Among his other presents was a model engine more perfect than you could ever have dreamed of. The other presents were full of charm, but the Engine was fuller of charm than any of the others were.
Its charm lasted in its full perfection for exactly three days. Then, owing either to Peter's inexperience or Phyllis's good intentions, which had been rather pressing, or to some other cause, the Engine suddenly went off with a bang. James was so frightened that he went out and did not come back all day. All the Noah's Ark people who were in the tender were broken to bits, but nothing else was hurt except the poor little engine and the feelings of Peter. The others said he cried over it - but of course boys of ten do not cry, however terrible the tragedies may be which darken their lot. He said that his eyes were red because he had a cold. This turned out to be true, though Peter did not know it was when he said it, the next day he had to go to bed and stay there. Mother began to be afraid that he might be sickening for measles, when suddenly he sat up in bed and said:
"I hate gruel - I hate barley water - I hate bread and milk. I want to get up and have something real to eat."
"What would you like?" Mother asked.
"A pigeon-pie," said Peter, eagerly, "a large pigeon-pie. A very large one."
So Mother asked the Cook to make a large pigeon-pie. The pie was made. And when the pie was made, it was cooked. And when it was cooked, Peter ate some of it. After that his cold was better. Mother made a piece of poetry to amuse him while the pie was being made.
Chapter 1 THE BEGINNING OF THINGS
Chapter 2 PETER'S COAL-MINE
Chapter 3 THE OLD GENTLEMAN
Chapter 4 THE ENGINE-BURGLAR
Chapter 5 PRISONERS AND CAPTIVES
Chapter 6 SAVIOURS OF THE TRAIN
Chapter 7 FOR VALOUR
Chapter 8 THE AMATEUR FIREMEN
Chapter 9 THE PRIDE OF PERKS
Chapter 10 THE TERRIBLE SECRET
Chapter 11 THE HOUND IN THE RED JERSEY
Chapter 12 WHAT BOBBIE BROUGHT HOME
Chapter 13 THE HOUND'S GRANDFATHER
Chapter 14 THE END
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