Full Steam Ahead
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman are riding the rails on an old-fashioned locomotive to learn how the golden age of steam transformed British life.
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman are riding the rails on an old-fashioned locomotive to learn how the golden age of steam transformed British life.
Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn reveal how the introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century...
Ruth, Alex and Peter look at how Victorian railways began to move people, rather than just goods, around the country.
Ruth, Alex and Peter reveal how the railways transformed the British diet, saving a nation that struggled to feed itself...
At the National Railway Museum, Alex and Peter help get the Flying Scotsman into steam. With the railways opening up...
The team head to the South Devon Railway to explore the life of the branch line before the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
The team find out how the combination of increased leisure time and affordable rail transport brought a new kind of...