Great Continental Railway Journeys

Great Continental Railway Journeys 2012

8.70

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

2012

Japan Railway Journal

Japan Railway Journal 2015

8.00

Discover the secrets of Japan's railways, from the newest technologies and systems in use, to travel tips and must-see places.

2015

Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels 2011

7.60

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

2011

Eisenbahn-Romantik

Eisenbahn-Romantik 1991

8.30

Railway-related documentary covering modern railway systems, museum railways and their facilities as well as items on model railway layouts. Politics and criticism is not left out; the series reports on closures, controversial model ideas, delays to reconstruction plans or smart commuter transport concepts.

1991

Train Cruise

Train Cruise 2013

1

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

2013

Jericho

Jericho 2016

6.50

In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.

2016

Rail Wars!

Rail Wars! 2014

6.10

Takayama enters the training program of JNR with the ambition of becoming one of the venerable train company's engineers. As a trainee he is teamed up with fight-ready Sakurai and stolid Iwaizumi and fellow Haruka Kōmi who has encyclopedic knowledge of trains. Together they learn how security officers for the train line work and get involved in more than one tricky situation.

2014

Rail Away

Rail Away 1996

1

Series about striking railways in the world. Each episode travels along a number of special locations, where the train serves as a guide and there is also attention for the landscape and culture.

1996

Great British Railway Journeys

Great British Railway Journeys 2010

7.30

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

2010

Gulag, the Story

Gulag, the Story 2020

7.90

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.

2020

Railroad Alaska

Railroad Alaska 2013

7.00

Following an elite crew of workers-- brakemen, engineers, construction crews, mechanics and train drivers – Railroad Alaska illustrates the battle against ferocious weather and treacherous terrain to keep the State of Alaska’s critical 500-mile long railroad rolling to deliver life sustaining supplies. From controlled avalanches to prevent catastrophe, to fascinating characters, like Jim James, the one-handed handy man, learn what it takes to keep this train on track.

2013

Mighty Trains

Mighty Trains 2016

5.80

A journey riding the rails around the world, from the locomotive to rail traffic control to the maintenance depot.

2016

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse 1966

6.80

The Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and featured Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron Ben Calhoun. Costars included Gary Collins, Robert Random and Ellen Burstyn.

1966

The Porter

The Porter 2022

4.00

In 1921, friends and train porters Junior and Zeke find their unbreakable bond stretched to its limits when tragedy inspires them to take conflicting paths to a better life.

2022

Walking Britain's Lost Railways

Walking Britain's Lost Railways 2018

6.30

Rob Bell explores the lost landscapes and infrastructure of some of Britain's former railway lines. From the 1960's the axe fell on 4,000 miles of Britain's rail network. Now, decades later, Rob Bell is going on journey to uncover those lost railway lines. Every week Rob will explore a different line; experiencing the hidden landscapes, lost infrastructure and forgotten worlds that disappeared when the line closed.

2018

Paddington Station 24/7

Paddington Station 24/7 2017

6.30

With visitor numbers approaching 70 million every year, Paddington is one of the UK's busiest transport hubs.

2017

Rocky Mountain Railroad

Rocky Mountain Railroad 2018

7.70

Follow the resilient crews who battle ferocious weather and treacherous terrain to keep Canada’s critical freight and passenger trains rolling. It’s an exclusive journey through the icy mountain wilderness on the country’s most extreme railway.

2018