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Eight-year-old Jamie's dog, Fran, goes missing and Jamie and his friend Len have almost despaired of finding her alive when, on one last search in the hills they find Fran, and something else besides.
Jamie lives on an isolated property and his closest friends live on the other side of the river. One day he runs across the 'forbidden' railway bridge to play with them and on the way back hears the clicking of an approaching train ...
