Great Railway Journeys

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S1 E5 Zambezi Express

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Cape Town to the Victoria Falls - still the most romantic railway journey in Africa.
MICHAEL WOOD, a young historian, follows the trail of the empire builder, Cecil Rhodes. His journey takes him through the great wilderness of the Karoo and the diamond fields of Kimberley to the gold city of Johannesburg and its sprawling offspring. Soweto.
Leaving South Africa, Wood travels through Botswana around the edge of the Kalahari into a war, for, in December 1979, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia was still a battlefield as the politicians argued out a cease-fire agreement in London.

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1980/11/27 S1 E4

Confessions of a Trainspotter

As a boy, Michael Palin spent hours on Sheffield Midland Station train-spotting. It's a habit he never outgrew, and now he fulfils every enthusiast's dream - a journey from one end of Britain to the other, from Euston to Kyle of Lochalsh, along routes steeped in railway history.

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1980/12/11 S1 E6

Three Miles High

The highest railroad in the world climbs the Peruvian Andes. After 60 tunnels, 45 bridges and switch-backs to 15,000 feet, MILES KINGTON gives up record-breaking and takes the only rail route southwards to Bolivia. From Cuzco, the Inca capital, Kington crosses some of the finest scenery in South America, riding variously on footplate, Pullman, vintage railcar and steamer - all built in Britain.
Timetables and people he met suggested the route. So, well briefed on the local history of revolutions, Kington decided to try a smooth crossing of Lake Titicaca - the calm before the storm. He soon found the storm.

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1980-10-30

Travel documentary series retracing memorable rail journeys.

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Great Railway Journeys