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This fascinating program visits the LMS, the largest railway company in the British Isles that served the heartlands of industry of the Midlands, the...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to...

In this travelogue, actor David Suchet journeys across Europe aboard the world famous Orient Express train, as he prepares to play Poirot in an...

This superb programme looks at the GWR God s Wonderful Railway as it was in the 1950s and 1960s and more recently. Archive scenes capture the true...

Follows a group of navvies as they work on completing the last great railway through the Swedish wilderness.

This program featuring rarely seen archive footage offers a glimpse into British Railways and Britain's Railways as it recalls how things have...

Discover the secrets of Japan's railways, from the newest technologies and systems in use, to travel tips and must-see places.

It all starts on 1830, when young George Stephenson manufactures the first steam engine and the first railway networks are built soon after. Railway...

What makes a great railway journey? Distance, scenery, the train itself, the people you meet on the way? Undoubtedly, it is all those things and...