Name: How Trains Changed the World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-11-26
Rating: 8
Cast: Kevin Spink

Episodes

1. Power and Empire: The Great Arteries

2018-11-26

One of the great advances of the 19th Century, the railways were a tool of empire. How did the Victorians use them to expand their influence?

2. The Great Workhorses: Trains That Move Loads

2018-12-03

From the Channel Tunnel to carrying iron ore in the Australian Outback, experts discuss the history and the future of freight trains.

3. Express Trains That Link Cities

2018-12-10

Intended as an efficient, economical way of moving freight, the emergence of express trains revolutionised society with the demand for fast travel.

4. The Commute: Trains That Make Cities

2018-12-17

The world's 10 busiest metro systems carry more than 22 billion passengers every year. How has the train shaped cities - and changed the world?

5. Trains and War: Weapons and Logistics

2018-12-24

As weapons and transport, trains transformed the battlefield - from huge railway guns and hospital trains to those taking victims to death camps.

6. The Love of Trains: Power, Prestige and Romance

2018-12-31

Trains have changed the way people see the world - and each other. What is it that makes them so special?

Cast

Kevin Spink

Narrator

Secrets of the Railways

Great British Railway Journeys

All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train

Thumbs Up!

Trains That Changed the World

CHINA AT HIGH SPEED

Histoire de trains

Great Continental Railway Journeys

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Around the World by Train With Tony Robinson

Railway Adventures Across Australia

The 800 Million Pound Railway Station