Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways
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43:00Chris traverses Morocco from west to east before heading off into the sands of the Sahara to discover whether a legendary line that stretches all the way to Timbuktu really exists.
Season 3
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44:00Chris Tarrant travels almost 3,000 kilometres across Scandinavia and Finland in the middle of winter, braving deep snow, sub-zero temperatures and hardly any light.
44:00Chris travels the route of the Soviet-era Trans-Caucasus Railway departing the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku.
44:00Chris Tarrant travels from Cape Town in South Africa across Botswana to the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, following the route of an ambitious railway pioneered by controversial Cecil Rhodes.
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45:00Chris Tarrant travels down the Konkan railway which runs along the west coast of India connecting the port cities of Mumbai and Mangalore.
44:00Chris Tarrant crosses the Australian Outback, to find out the truth about an amazing railway from Adelaide to Darwin.
Season 4 43:00
43:00From the deserts of Lawrence of Arabia, Chris follows the route of the Hejaz Railway up through Jordan, before crossing the border into Israel. He's headed for the holiest city of all Jerusalem.
43:00Chris explores five countries that were part of Yugoslavia, which had an extensive state-run railway network before its break-up in the 1990s and the Balkan Wars of Independence that followed.
43:00Chris sets out to cross three former Soviet republics entirely by rail in just one week, travelling through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Uncovering amazing stories and secrets from the region.
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45:00Chris Tarrant heads to West Africa to experience one of the greatest surviving African railways of the colonial era.
Season 3 44:00
44:00Chris sets out from a British-built station in Buenos Aires taking the overnight train to the pampas lowlands.
44:00Chris heads to Alaska, but his plan to travel along the Alaska Railroad does not get off to a good start in Seward, so he hitches a ride on a track inspector's car before riding a freight train.
Chris Tarrant travels down the Konkan railway which runs along the west coast of India connecting the port cities of Mumbai and Mangalore.
Chris Tarrant heads to West Africa to experience one of the greatest surviving African railways of the colonial era.