The Architecture the Railways Built

Seasons

2020

8.6

Railway expert and train enthusiast Tim Dunn explores the stunning architecture that lines the railway network.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Down Street

Tim Dunn explores disused tube station Down Street in Mayfair that played a crucial tactical role during WWII and tours Rotterdam's new Centraal station with the man who designed it.

S1 • E2

Ffestiniog

Tim Dunn visits the Ffestiniog in Wales originally built to transport slate from mountain to coast and learns about Amsterdam Centraal - controversially built across the waterfront.

S1 • E3

Kings Cross

Tim Dunn goes behind the scenes at London's Kings Cross and learns of Bristol's funicular railway.

S1 • E4

Ribblehead

Tim Dunn visits the Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales, talks to the man who saved it from closure and tours the breathtaking stations of the Hungerbergbahn in Innsbruck.

S1 • E5

Metroland

Tim Dunn follows his family's roots by exploring Metroland, the area around the Metropolitan Railway, and in Great Malvern learns about the woman behind the decorative 1860s station.

S1 • E6

St. Pancras

Tim Dunn explores the ornate St Pancras station in London and its sister hotel - built to show off the might of the Midlands, and learns about Castle Howard station in North Yorkshire.

S1 • E7

Snowdon

Tim Dunn rides up Mt Snowdon's railway to visit the summit station, and discovers how a glass structure envelopes Strasbourg's 19th century station.

S1 • E8

Broadway

Tim Dunn visits the former HQ of London Underground, 55 Broadway, which was the capital's first skyscraper, and sees the timber-framed Barmouth Bridge in North Wales.

S1 • E9

Stockton Darlington

Tim Dunn visits the architecture of the Stockton and Darlington railway, the first passenger steam line in the world and learns how Essex's enormous Chappel Viaduct was built.

S1 • E10

Swindon

Tim Dunn visits Swindon's railway village, which became home to Great Western's enormous works and he also explores the dark and secret past of Milan's monumental Central Station.

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