Mark Williams On The Rails

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  • Premiered: Sep 2002
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
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  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Cornish Steam Giant
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Sep 02, 2002
Mark Williams celebrates two hundred years of trains, charting the development of the first locomotive by Richard Trevithick in 1804.
1x2
Rocket Men
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Sep 09, 2002
Mark Williams celebrates two hundred years of trains, tracking the creation of railways in the North East by George Stephenson and son.
1x3
Brunel
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Sep 16, 2002
Mark Williams rides the American railroad to explore how the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad linked the east and west coasts of America.
1x4
Moving Mountains
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Sep 23, 2002
Mark Williams rides the American railroad to explore how the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad linked the east and west coasts of America.
1x5
Carriage Kings
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Sep 30, 2002
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.
1x6
Death on the Tracks
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Oct 07, 2002
In this edition, Mark Williams learns how, during the early days of train travel, death on the tracks was tragically common.
1x7
Big Country
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Oct 14, 2002
Mark Williams discovers how a curious engine used to transport slate down the Welsh mountains inspired an amazing railway through the Rocky Mountains.
1x8
Speed and Power
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Oct 21, 2002
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.
1x9
Going Underground
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Air date
Oct 28, 2002
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.
1x10 Show finale
Out of Steam
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Air date
Nov 04, 2002
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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