The Railway ChildrenThey were not railway children to begin with. I dont suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cooks, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussauds. 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 bathroom with hot and cold water,