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Great Railway Journeys(1980-1999)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.

Hell on Wheels(2011-2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Western
3.8/5 (with 194 votes)

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

Japan Railway Journal(2015-)

28min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Discover the secrets of Japan's railways, from the newest technologies and systems in use, to travel tips and must-see places.

Great British Railway Journeys(2010-)

30min per episode | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

The Iron Horse(1966-1968)

1h per episode | Western
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and featured Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron Ben Calhoun. Costars included Gary Collins, Robert Random and Ellen Burstyn.

Directed by László Benedek

Paddington Station 24/7(2017-)

45min per episode | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

With visitor numbers approaching 70 million every year, Paddington is one of the UK's busiest transport hubs.

World's Busiest Railway(2015)

1h per episode | Documentary

From the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Robert Llewellyn explore the science behind the world's busiest railway. With John Sergeant reporting from across India.

Supertrain(1979)

1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Supertrain is an American television drama/adventure series that ran on NBC from February 7 to May 5, 1979. Nine episodes were made, including a 2-hour pilot episode.

Intercontinental-Express(1966)

FSK: 12+ years
| 25min per episode | Drama, Crime

- No description / details available yet. -

Quai n°1(1997-2006)

1h 30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Rail Wars!(2014)

24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Takayama enters the training program of JNR with the ambition of becoming one of the venerable train company's engineers. As a trainee he is teamed up with fight-ready Sakurai and stolid Iwaizumi and fellow Haruka Kōmi who has encyclopedic knowledge of trains. Together they learn how security officers for the train line work and get involved in more than one tricky situation.

Jericho(2016)

1h per episode | Drama, Western
3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.

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Impossible Railways(2018-2019)

45min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Around the World by Train With Tony Robinson(2019-)

1h per episode | Documentary

Covering thousands of miles, Sir Tony Robinson takes a whirlwind journey around the globe by train.

Mighty Trains(2016-)

46min per episode | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A journey riding the rails around the world, from the locomotive to rail traffic control to the maintenance depot.

Great Continental Railway Journeys(2012-)

1h per episode | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

Paul Merton's Secret Stations(2016)

47min per episode | Documentary

More than 150 of Britain’s railway stations are request stops. You have to put out your arm to get the train to stop at the platform. In this series, Paul Merton will travel around the country by train, only getting off at request stops. He’ll explore the history of the stations, and meet the people who live and work around them to learn more about at these unusual and often-overlooked stations.

Amazing Train Journeys(2011-)

55min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Great American Railroad Journeys(2016-2020)

29min per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879.

David Jason: Planes, Trains and Automobiles(2019)

45min per episode | Documentary, Reality-TV

In this five-part series, comedy legend Sir David Jason hits the West Coast of the USA. He’s on a revealing and entertaining journey of a lifetime by planes, trains and automobiles, discovering the machines that made America and changed the world.

Griff's Great Australian Rail Trip(2020)

British comedian and travel enthusiast Griff Rhys Jones hops on some of Australia's most impressive long distance trains, travelling across the expansive outback and along spectacular coastlines.

Arctic Ice Railroad(2021-)

A crew battle deadly ice and snow to keep a crucial supply route open.

Great Asian Railway Journeys(2020)

30min per episode | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Michael Portillo is in Southeast Asia, armed with his 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook. It will lead him on a spectacular 2,500-mile railway adventure across six countries. He explores towering megacities and magnificent mosques.

Die gefährlichsten Bahnstrecken der Welt(2021-2023)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Walking Britain's Lost Railways(2018-)

45min per episode | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Rob Bell explores the lost landscapes and infrastructure of some of Britain's former railway lines. From the 1960's the axe fell on 4,000 miles of Britain's rail network. Now, decades later, Rob Bell is going on journey to uncover those lost railway lines. Every week Rob will explore a different line; experiencing the hidden landscapes, lost infrastructure and forgotten worlds that disappeared when the line closed.

Full Steam Ahead(2016)

1h per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

With the help of Victorian steam enthusiasts across the country, historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands journey back in time to the era of steam which shaped modern Britain.

Gulag, the Story(2020)

53min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.

Mit dem Zug durch ...(2006-)

FSK: 0+ years
| Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Railroad Alaska(2013-2016)

1h per episode | Reality-TV
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Following an elite crew of workers-- brakemen, engineers, construction crews, mechanics and train drivers – Railroad Alaska illustrates the battle against ferocious weather and treacherous terrain to keep the State of Alaska’s critical 500-mile long railroad rolling to deliver life sustaining supplies. From controlled avalanches to prevent catastrophe, to fascinating characters, like Jim James, the one-handed handy man, learn what it takes to keep this train on track.

Coastal Railways with Julie Walters(2017)

45min per episode | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Actor Julie Walters rides upon the UK's most beautiful coastal railways.

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