The top mistakes in The Railway Children http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1041 en Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:55:08 +0000 6267 About 3/4 through the film, which is supposedly set in the 1900s, there's an exterior shot of Jenny Agutter (as Roberta) talking to William Mervyn (as "the old gentleman").  Over Mervyn's shoulder can be seen a white delivery van driving rather fast along a road on the other side of the valley from where the filming took place (this is very obvious in the wide-screen version but less noticeable in the pan-and-scan TV version). 27196 In the scene when the Grammar School boys are on the paper chase they run through a railway tunnel. The Railway Children go to the opposite end to see the grammar school boys come out, as they are waiting for the final boy to come through, the paper that is thrown on the floor for the boys to chase appears then disappears several times. 6266 Although the name of the family in the film is established as "Waterbury" (in E. Nesbit's book the family doesn't have a surname), about 15 minutes into the film a man in the street says to Dinah Sheridan (playing the mother) "Good evening Mrs WaterFORD". 45270 When the 3 children are waiting for their mother, the rain is pouring down. Yet, when they are gathered around the Russian guy on the floor, their clothes are dry. 77329 In the last scene where the children are walking away from the house after their father has gone in, in the background on the right hand side of the screen, a tree falls.