Industrial

Constructed to link Sheffield and Manchester, the 41-mile route headed west from the industrial heartland of south Yorkshire, climbing to the line's summit at Woodhead, almost 1000 feet above sea level, where it penetrated the Pennine barrier before descending towards Manchester. From it's opening, the...

The programme starts in the south west of England and traces the former GWR route to London (Paddington) via Swindon and Didcot in the 1950s and '60s when steam in the form of ex-GWR designs still predominated. The country branch line was a classic feature of the GWR and many lines changed little throughout...