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 Even after its release 52 years ago, Lionel Jeffries's adaptation of "The Railway Children" was something of a throwback: gentle, low-conflict family entertainment, faithfully drawn from E. Nesbit's 1905 children's novel, which harkens back to an Edwardian- era the England of steam trains, rolling green fields, and tight-knit village communities. At the time, it caught a wave of nostalgia that cemented it firmly in the British popular canon, though it never achieved the same status as a classic abroad. Half a century later, it is still fervently considered "they don't make them like they used to." A very late follow-up, Morgan Matthews' "The Railway Children Return" aims to prove that, in fact, they do. Effectively piling nostalgia upon nostalgia upon nostalgia into a three-layered Victorian sponge of particularly English sweetness, this affable and decidedly old-fashioned film will probably make any adult who grew up on Jeffries's...