Railway History Movies

This program featuring rarely seen archive footage offers a glimpse into British Railways and Britain's Railways as it recalls how things have changed...

In this travelogue, actor David Suchet journeys across Europe aboard the world famous Orient Express train, as he prepares to play Poirot in an adapta...

This superb programme looks at the GWR God s Wonderful Railway as it was in the 1950s and 1960s and more recently. Archive scenes capture the true ess...

This fascinating program visits the LMS, the largest railway company in the British Isles that served the heartlands of industry of the Midlands, the...

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to f...

Follows a group of navvies as they work on completing the last great railway through the Swedish wilderness.