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The Railway Children is a charity based in Cheshire, England that aims to help runaway children and street children throughout the World, particularly those who live around railway stations.
Founded in 1995 by David Maidment, former Controller of Safety Policy at British Rail. The charity takes its name from the Edith Nesbit book The Railway Children. It has been adopted as the charity of the British railway industry and railway enthusiasts.
Famous quotes containing the words railway and/or children:
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)