Michael Portillo is in Southeast Asia, armed with his 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook. It will lead him on a spectacular 2,500-mile railway adventure across six countries. He explores towering megacities and magnificent mosques.

The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nati...

Criss-cross Japan by rail. Enjoy an amazing diversity of nature and scenery across the four seasons,...

Filmed on location across the UK, the one-time owner of the Flying Scotsman presents a four-part ser...

Following an elite crew of workers-- brakemen, engineers, construction crews, mechanics and train dr...

A enjoyable low budget variety program about female railroad enthusiasts ("tetsu ota"). The girls wh...

In this five-part series, comedy legend Sir David Jason hits the West Coast of the USA. He’s on a re...

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. P...

A 4-part documentary series capturing the compelling story of James J. Hill and the Great Northern R...

British comedian and travel enthusiast Griff Rhys Jones hops on some of Australia's most impressive ...

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely...

Griff Rhys Jones explores Africa the unhurried way, as he takes to the continent’s railways to immer...

Climb up on the footplate and join historian and host Dan Cruickshank for a railway adventure like n...

Series about striking railways in the world. Each episode travels along a number of special location...

Michael Portillo examines the role of the railways in World War I and travels through Britain and Eu...

The railway age in the Austrian Empire began with the construction of the horse-drawn railway from L...

Guided by a century-old Bradshaw’s Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael Portillo...

For over a century, locomotives played a vital role in wartime. We explore some of the trains and ra...