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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, reconnecti...

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

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

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...

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

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