Jenny Agutter, who plays Mother, twice played eldest daughter Roberta: 30 years earlier in The Railway Children (1970) and also previously in 1968's The Railway Children (1968)
The eldest of the railway children, Roberta, is named after Berta Ruck, a close friend of E. Nesbit.
The scenes of the Great Northern and Southern Railway were filmed on the preserved Bluebell Railway. The station used for filming was Horsted Keynes.
Jenny agutta who plays Roberta in the 1970s railway children. Returns to play mother in this version. And in 2022 in the railway children returns Is returning as Roberta once again.