PROGRAMME 10

Railfest 2004 (1)
We travel to the National Railway Museum in York to visit Railfest, celebrating 200 years since Trevithick’s Penydarren, in this first part we tour the steam arena tracing the early days of railways.

Glasgow Underground
The third oldest underground system in Europe, we hear about its early days as a cable hauled system, and see how it operates today.

The Bowes Railway.
The coal mining area of North East England utilised a network of rope hauled systems to overcome the steep inclines in the area, The Bowes Railway has kept part of this impressive piece of engineering in operation.

Railfest 2004 (2)
More from the big event, and here we look at the diesel and modern trains on view.