Tickets have gone on sale for a special event cinema screening of The Railway Children in Welwyn Garden City.

Welwyn Hatfield Times: Rozzi Nicholson-Lailey and Rob Angell in The Railway Children [Picture: Anthony Robling]Rozzi Nicholson-Lailey and Rob Angell in The Railway Children [Picture: Anthony Robling] (Image: Archant)

A recorded version of York Theatre Royal’s Olivier Award-winning production The Railway Children can be seen at the Garden City Cinema, Campus West, on Easter Monday.

Mike Kenny and Damian Cruden’s imaginative stage adaptation is directed for the screen by international Emmy award-winning Ross MacGibbon, of The Importance of Being Earnest with David Suchet and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake fame.

The filmed event from the National Railway Museum in Yorkshire features the original locomotive from the much-loved 1970 film, which starred a young Jenny Agutter.

E Nesbit’s The Railway Children follows the story of Roberta (Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter, three sheltered siblings who suffer a huge upheaval when their father, who works for the Foreign Office, is taken away from their London home and falsely imprisoned.

Welwyn Hatfield Times: Rozzi Nicholson-Lailey as Roberta in The Railway Children [Picture: Anthony Robling]Rozzi Nicholson-Lailey as Roberta in The Railway Children [Picture: Anthony Robling] (Image: Archant)

The children and their mother, now penniless, are forced to move from London to rural Yorkshire near a railway line.

The story deals with themes of justice, the importance of family and the kindness of strangers.

This spectacular version stars Rozzi Nicholson-Lailey, Beth Lilly, Izaak Cainer, Andrina Carroll, Rob Angell and Martin Barrass.

Standards tickets for the 4pm screening on Monday, March 28 cost £12, and it is £9 for children 16 and under.

A family ticket, which must include one child, is priced £32.

* For more details, and to book tickets, visit the Garden City Cinema website.