Trains At WarSeason 1, Episode 2 - 1940: Full Steam Towards The Battle Of Britain

London under the Nazi fire. Winston Churchill promised to face his great enemy, Adolf Hitler. Since 1940, German bombers started nocturnal air strikes on London, Coventry, Birmingham, or Canterbury. The Battle of Britain was raging. The first minister leant on all imaginable infrastructures. But despite the opinion of his generals, he knew that one of them was even more crucial than the others - the railway. Its galleries, tunnels, transportation capacity, the big lines, the small lines.

Trains At War was broadcast on SBS ONE at Sunday 13 November 2022, 06:34.