Full Steam Ahead
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman are riding the rails on an old-fashioned locomotive to learn how the golden age of steam transformed British life.
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman are riding the rails on an old-fashioned locomotive to learn how the golden age of steam transformed British life.
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Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn reveal how the introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century...
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Ruth, Alex and Peter look at how Victorian railways began to move people, rather than just goods, around the country.
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Ruth, Alex and Peter reveal how the railways transformed the British diet, saving a nation that struggled to feed itself...
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At the National Railway Museum, Alex and Peter help get the Flying Scotsman into steam. With the railways opening up...
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The team head to the South Devon Railway to explore the life of the branch line before the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
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The team find out how the combination of increased leisure time and affordable rail transport brought a new kind of...