Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879.

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...

David Choe hitchhikes his way across these United States by (other people's) trains, cars, and boats...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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