Climb up on the footplate and join historian and host Dan Cruickshank for a railway adventure like no other as he investigates how trains helped shape modern Britain. This three-part series resurrects an exhilarating age and kicks off by focusing on the railways' role in defeating Hitler, before unearthing the incredible engineering achievements of Isambard Brunel and embarking on a trip on the earliest steam engines.

The invention of trains transformed everything about how humans lived. From the movement of goods an...

Covering thousands of miles, Sir Tony Robinson takes a whirlwind journey around the globe by train.

Intercity 125 – Britain's own original high-speed train – rules the rails today, but this national i...

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured i...

Documentary series revealing the inner workings of Britain's railways, introducing the track-workers...

Series telling the story of the architects, engineers and spin doctors who entered a frantic two yea...

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

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

How four iconic British-built trains revolutionised rail travel and inspired incredible railway proj...

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

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...

Michael Portillo is in Southeast Asia, armed with his 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook. It will lead him on ...

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

Professor Alice Roberts travels across Greece and thousands of years back to our collective past, tr...

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

The mere mention of the Orient Express brings to mind evocative images of opulent carriages, stylish...