A voyage of discovery as we follow the most astounding freight trains in the world, carrying extraordinary loads on a daily basis. From the deserts of Mauritania to the the freezing mountains of Canada we reveal the daily lives of the train crews as they battle to bring their loads in on time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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