The Train Now Departing (1988)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series looks back at British railways two decades after steam locomotives stopped running. It shows old railway routes and trains, and talks about how rail travel changed in that time.

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What happens

The Train Now Departing: Twenty Years After the End of Steam is a 1988 BBC Two documentary series about railways that was broadcast 20 years after the end of steam on British Railways. It was written and narrated by Anthony Smith. A book to accompany the series was also published by BBC Books with photographs by Ivo Peters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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