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Season 6
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Chris is in one of his favourite places, Ireland. He’s on a mission to visit all four corners of the Emerald Isle in just six days on an ageing network than has seen better days. Largely built during British colonial rule, this is one of the oldest networks in the world. These railways have played their part in over a hund...
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Chris attempts to follow the now crumbling line right across Kenya to the shores of Lake Victoria. He’ll discover how the constructors overcame the most extreme obstacles including deserts, cliffs, mosquito infested swamps, hostile local tribes, and even man-eating lions in their bid to make East Africa part of the British...
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Chris heads to the crossroads of the world in search of a legendary long-distance railway that played a crucial role in Turkey’s history. He travels from one of the busiest, most famous cities in the world, Istanbul, to one of the most remote and desolate, Kars, near the Armenian border. Along the way he’ll see some extrao...
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In this monster themed episode, Chris heads to Transylvania to seek out the truth behind the story of Dracula and find out how well the region’s railway networks, meticulously described in Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic, have survived. Chris follows the route of the fictional Jonathon Harker deep into Transylvania to the locat...
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Chris Tarrant journeys to the Middle East to explore what remains of the colonial railways that were built there a hundred years ago. From the deserts of Lawrence of Arabia, Chris follows the route of the Hejaz Railway up through Jordan, before crossing the border into Israel. In the Holy Land, he’s headed for the holiest ...
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Chris explores five countries of former Yugoslavia. As a communist federation under Marshal Tito, this country had an extensive state-run railway network, but with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the Balkan Wars of Independence that followed, much of it was destroyed or fell into disuse. Chris attempts to cross ...
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Caught between the rock of Europe and the hard place of Russia, the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have been invaded more times than Chris has had hot dinners. As he struggles to navigate railways that have been ripped up and replaced through endless foreign occupations, Chris uncovers some amazing s...
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Chris Tarrant travels to Morocco to explore the vast railway network built in the French colonial era to connect the country with France's other African Colonies. After travelling the length of the country from West to East, Chris heads for the desert. He’s on a mission to find out whether a legendary railway right across ...
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Chris Tarrant is travelling on the Konkan railway which runs down the west coast of India connecting the port cities of Mumbai and Mangalore. Although the British Empire built 40,000 miles of track across this vast sub-continent between, they stayed clear of this narrow, boggy strip of land as it was such a treacherous and...
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Chris Tarrant crosses the Australian Outback to find out the truth about an amazing railway. The 3,000 kilometre-long Adelaide to Darwin Railway is commonly known as “The Ghan Line”. It‘s named after the luxury passenger service that runs on it and the name 'Ghan' is said to derive from the Afghan-run camel trains that fer...
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Television presenter Chris Tarrant travels around the world to ride some of the most extreme railways that wind their way through some of the harshest terrain on Earth. Chris is in West Africa to experience one of the greatest surviving African railways of the colonial era. Built by French colonists at a cost of tens of th...
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Chris 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. He’s on a mission to find out how war, iron ore and a certain Lapland living red suited gentlemen inspired the Scandinavians to build an extreme railway networ...
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Chris travels the length if the historic Trans- Caucasus Railway. He starts his journey in Baku on the shores of the Caspian and travels to the port of Batumi on the Black Sea. He learns that the railway was built in the days of the Russian Empire and has been used to ship oil across the Black Sea. During his travels, he v...
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Chris Tarrant travels from Cape Town in South Africa across Botswana to the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, following the route of a mind-bogglingly ambitious railway pioneered by controversial 19th century British Colonialist, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes made a fortune from diamonds and used it to fund his railway and extend British...
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Chris Tarrant travels by train across a thousand-mile stretch of Argentina to the heart of Patagonia. In the heyday of its 'Belle Epoque' this country boasted one of the largest and finest railways in the world, largely funded and built by the British. As he heads further and further South in his quest to ride the iconic O...
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Chris Tarrant returns for more train journeys through some of the world's most challenging terrain. He heads to the Arctic for a trip along the Alaska Railroad, but as he arrives in the port of Seward, it's not a great start as there are no trains running, so he ends up hitching a ride with a track inspector's car. He cont...
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TV and radio presenter Chris Tarrant journeys by rail through some of the world's most challenging terrain, beginning with a trip from Bangkok in Thailand to Mandalay in Myanmar. Chris traces the route of the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, a 250-mile line built by the Japanese during the Second World War using enslaved Asia...
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Chris Tarrant discovers how a two and a half thousand mile transcontinental railway was built against huge odds in just a few decades and turned a vast wilderness of isolated communities into the country we now know as Canada. Along the way, Chris drops a few bombs, searches for Winnie the Pooh, crosses raging rivers and e...
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Chris Tarrant discovers the 'Land of the Rising Sun' is the Land of the Train. Chris journeys a thousand miles across Japan to find out if Japanese railways really are the best in the world, and why they're so obsessed by them. Chris starts his journey in the city of Nagasaki, where the story of Japanese railways began 150...
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Chris Tarrant explores the world's most extreme railway lines. Chris attempts to cross the length of Cuba, the only island in the Caribbean to boast an extensive railway network, from Havana in the west to the far east of the island.
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