How long is railway children at waterloo

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Many of us will remember The Railway Children as one of our favourite books as we were growing up. It has now been turned into a stage production in an unusual and imaginative venue - Waterloo train station. The tracks that were once used for the Eurostar were redundant until the concept for the play was dreamt up. The Railway Children is a theatre show of the classic Edith Nesbitt children's book. The play is set in the realistic surroundings of Waterloo station.

You will be seated at either side of the railway tracks that were once home to the Eurostar train. The theatre has a capacity of One of the stars of the show is the Stirling Single No. Throughout the play, the train actually moves in and out of the theatre area, between the two platforms that make up the stage area.

The play is popular amongst children. The theatre organisers suggest that anybody above the age of 2 can come to the show. The play stars child actors the three main characters in the play are in their early teens - Bobby, Peter and Phyllis, are the stars of the show and the kids will love the novelty of the moving train that moves throughout the play. This is a play where the kids anyone from 2 and up will enjoy it just as much, if not more, than the grown-ups.