Trains

S7E10: Trains

S7E100.08/1/202259 min

How Alstom builds a 187-tonne, five-carriage electric train on their 84-acre site in Derby. How the train's aluminium is made at the UK's last remaining smelter in Scotland. How tunnel boring machines are digging ten miles through the hills for the new HS2 line. The history of the UK’s first electric train - Brighton's seafront tourist train, still used today - and how that technology went on to be used in underground transportation all over the world.

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Cast & Crew

Cast

Cherry Healey

Cherry Healey

Self - Presenter

Ruth Goodman

Ruth Goodman

Self - Presenter

Paddy McGuinness

Paddy McGuinness

Self - Presenter

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