
First Air Date: 2010-08-10
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Status: Ended
Genres: Documentary
Seasons: 1 · Episodes: 3
Runtime: 60 min / episode
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.
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