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Rob Bell explores the era when our modern railways were born in the industrial heartlands of the North-East, where for over 150 years coal was king. Visiting former collieries, living museums and meeting former miners, he tells the story of the 1822 Hetton line, the world's first railway designed for steam locomotives.
All the Stations is a documentary series published on YouTube, which sees Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe visit all 2,563 stations [note 1] on Great Britain's National Rail rail network, [4] [5] [6] and all 198 stations in Ireland, on the railway networks of Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
Didcot Railway Centre By 2015 a few, such as Denham Golf Club , survived in ordinary use. Some survived on preserved railways and others have been erected as new builds on such lines [ 48 ] [ 49 ] At least one has been rescued from a derelict site and installed on a preserved railway, at Donniford Halt on the West Somerset Railway . [ 50 ]
The Architecture the Railways Built is a British factual documentary series presented by the historian Tim Dunn, first broadcast in the United Kingdom from 28 April 2020 on Yesterday. Each episode explores railway sites across the UK and Europe, including historical, abandoned, modern and future elements.
Great British Railway Journeys is a 2010–present BBC documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, a former Conservative MP and Cabinet Minister who was instrumental in saving the Settle to Carlisle line from closure in 1989. [1] [2] The documentary was first broadcast in 2010 on BBC Two and has returned annually for a current total of 15 ...
Lake Tapps has been tapped. Officials had to drain the 4.5 square mile reservoir near Seattle to make essential repairs to a dam. What it revealed looked like another planet a long-forgotten ...
In the series, Tarrant travels worldwide to visit railways that go through the harshest terrain. [2] [3] He also travels on railways that are some of the world's oldest and most scenic, [4] and finds out their history. [5] So far, six series of the programme have aired from 5 December 2012 to 3 December 2020.
Episode 5: Birth Story. First broadcast 25 March 1997. [13] [14] Episode 6: Forgotten Allies. First broadcast 1 April 1997. [15] [16] Episode 7: Back to the Iron Age. First broadcast 18 April 1997. [17] [18] The following series has eight episodes. Episode 1: The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai. First broadcast 28 October 1997. [19]