Episode 1

During Peter’s birthday party, strangers arrive and take Father away. Mother says he has gone away on business - but when will he return and what will Mother and the children do?

Episode 2

Now living in their new home in the country, without their father, the children befriend Perks at the local railway station and go ‘coalmining’ at the station stores.

Episode 3

Mother is taken ill and the children get a message of help to a kindly old gentleman on the train, who sends her a hamper.

Episode 4

Mother and the children come to the aid of a distressed Russian gentleman who arrives at the station and Bobbie learns the truth about her father.

Episode 5

Mother tells Bobbie she must keep her secret from the other children. Later, the children discover a fallen tree on the line as the express train is due.

Episode 6

The children are rewarded by the railway company, and they soon need their courage again when a boy goes missing in the tunnel.

Episode 7

The children save Jim from the tunnel and take him home to be looked after. A train arrives at the station bringing some good news.