Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at Quintinshill near Gretna Green. One of the trains was a troop train taking soldiers to fight in World War I at the Battle of Gallipoli: many of the dead were in this train which caught fire due to escaped gas from the archaic gas lighting in the carriages. The cause of the crash was attributed to a catastrophic signalman's error, but Neil examines whether there were other contributory factors and whether there was a cover-up to prevent investigation of them, making convenient scapegoats of the signalmen.

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accom...

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the divisi...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

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Production for the Seaboard Railroad company outlining their railroad activities in the 1940s and he...

A documentary on the railroads of America produced by the Association of American Railroads

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The story of the railroad man in his role in keeping the trains moving on the rails.

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In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
A unique look inside over 70 signal boxes taken from Video 125's archive filmed over a period of 30 ...

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A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now ...

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in ...

In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines t...

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...