Tough Trains

Russia's Ice Trains (1x2)

Air date: Sep 23, 2014

Russia’s trains travel along 85,500km of track, crossing 11 time zones. In the cold and often brutal Russian winters, these trains persist against the freezing weather, travelling into Siberia and beyond. We travel from the capital city of Moscow and head north to Stalin’s cruellest and most ambitious project – the Rail-road of Death – before ending on the world’s most northern railway. With average temperatures around -20/-30 degrees and ice at every turn, there’s nothing easy about Russian trains.