Paul travels the French Riviera by train, taking control of a steam engine on the Pine Cone line, and stopping off to ride a historic Solex motor-bicycle and visit France's 'other' D-Day landing site. He rides along the coast from Nice and in the cab of millionaire businessman Paul Ricard's private line, and takes in the beauty of the flamingos and bulls of Provence.

Paul visits Switzerland, travelling up front on the Glacier Express through some of Europe's most beautiful scenery. Then Paul helps stoke a 1920s stream train through the mountains to a world-famous glacier. After driving a funicular train up to the Reichenbach Falls, where Sherlock Holmes met his fictional demise, he finishes by taking a train through the ice to the summit of the Eiger.

On the Isle of Wight, Paul follows in the footsteps of his tube driver dad by riding up front on the very trains his father would have driven on the Northern Line - now in service on the island. After driving a heritage steam, Paul helps a cow give birth. His journey finishes with a look at how the island was prepared in secret to help with D-Day.