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Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways

Season 1 Episode 2

By the 1840s, the benefit of railways is apparent to many people. The period of "Railway Mania" begins, in which there is a free-for-all with different companies building lines (sometimes in competition with each other),with little...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1

Aired: Jan 15, 2013

Dan Snow looks at the early pioneering days of the railways, as George Stephe...

Episode 2

Aired: Jan 22, 2013

By the 1840s, the benefit of railways is apparent to many people. The period ...

Episode 3

Aired: Jan 29, 2013

Between 1870 and the First World War, it was the golden age of railways. Brit...

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Info about Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History