Mark Williams on the Rails
(2004)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
Diesel Generation
Episode 10 - 6-03-2004
Mark Williams explores the introduction of diesel electric systems in 1953 and drives a Class 31 complete with hot plate, windscreen wiper and ashtrays.
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Going Underground
Episode 9 - 5-27-2004
Mark Williams gets to grips with the oldest subterranean train network in the world, London's Underground, and travels through an early tunnel under the Thames.
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Speed and Power
Episode 8 - 5-20-2004
Mark Williams explains how the race for speed during the 1920s and 1930s led to locomotives setting records that are still a match for modern rail travel.
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Big Country
Episode 7 - 5-13-2004
Mark Williams rides the American railroad to explore how the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad linked the east and west coasts of America.
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Death on the Tracks
Episode 6 - 5-06-2004
In this edition, Mark Williams learns how, during the early days of train travel, death on the tracks was tragically common.
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Carriage Kings
Episode 5 - 4-29-2004
Mark Williams explores how the introduction of railways affected society. He rides in an old third-class carriage before travelling in style on the Orient Express
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Moving Mountains
Episode 4 - 4-22-2004
Mark Williams discovers how a curious engine used to transport slate down the Welsh mountains inspired an amazing railway through the Rocky Mountains.
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Brunel
Episode 3 - 4-15-2004
The creation of the Great Western Railway under the control of a single engineer I.K. Brunel
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Rocket Men
Episode 2 - 4-08-2004
Mark Williams celebrates two hundred years of trains, tracking the creation of railways in the North East by George Stephenson and son.
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Cornish Steam Giant
Episode 1 - 4-01-2004
Mark Williams celebrates two hundred years of trains, charting the development of the first locomotive by Richard Trevithick in 1804.
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