A NEW feature-length family drama which was partly filmed in Inverclyde is due to be released this weekend.

Scenes for CBBC’s adaption of The Primrose Railway Children were shot at Finlaystone Country Park during the summer.

The film is based on author Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s modern reimagining of E. Nesbit’s classic tale, The Railway Children.

The story follows Phoebe (Ava McCarthy), her older sister Becks (Isa Brooke) and brother Perry (Tylan Bailey) as they are uprooted from their lives in Glasgow and moved to the Scottish Highlands.

(Image: BBC) Grey’s Anatomy and Trainspotting star Kevin McKidd and Bodyguard’s Nina Toussaint-White also feature as parents Rob and Sarah.

Kevin, who currently plays Dr Owen Hunt in the US medical drama, told BBC Scotland he was ‘really proud’ to be involved in the project.

He said: “I love the original film, so that was really attractive to me.

“I don’t get to do many things that my little kids – I’ve got a five-year-old and a six-year-old – get to watch.

“I’m on Grey’s Anatomy and there’s all this fake blood. It’s quite scary a lot of the stuff that I do as an actor.

“It’s nice to have something, at Christmastime, that I can sit down with my family and watch and let them see what dad does for a living.

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“I cut my teeth here as an actor doing Trainspotting and Small Faces and all those films back in the day.

"All the crews and the cast, everybody’s still the same, so it feels like coming home for me.

“There’s such a breadth and depth of talent with the Scottish crews and Scottish actors.”

The Primrose Railway Children will be aired on CBBC at 5:30pm on Sunday.

Dame Jacqueline added: “I’m so looking forward to seeing this exciting new adaptation of my book The Primrose Railway Children.

“It’s going to be a special treat for all the family.”