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Extreme Railway Journeys

Rating:3.5 of 5Total number of episodes:18Last broadcast:26/10/2018 at 09:30
October 2018
44:06

July 5, 2017

3.0 2 x
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...
44:01

Season 3 Episode 3 - The Diamond Railway

Expired 4.0 0 x
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...
44:06

Season 3 Episode 2 - Night Train To Patagonia

Expired 4.0 5 x
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...
43:59

Season 3 Episode 1 - Ice Train To Nowhere

Expired 3.0 1 x
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...
September 2018
45:12

Season 1 Episode 3 - India's Monsoon Railway

Expired 4.0 2 x
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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Season 1 Episode 2 - Australia's Outback Railway

Expired 3.0 2 x
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...
45:00

Season 1 Episode 1 - Congo's Jungle Railway

Expired 4.5 3 x
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...
44:02

S2 Ep1 - Railroad To Mandalay

Expired 3.0 3 x
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...
August 2018
43:59

S2 Ep6 - The Railway That Created Canada

Expired 3.0 4 x
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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Season 2 Episode 5 - The Great Japanese Train Ride

Expired 4.0 7 x
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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