Full Steam Ahead

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Full Steam Ahead

Hear how increased leisure time and affordable rail transport brought a new kind of freedom for working-class Victorians, and discover how London became a tourist destination.

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Series 1
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Revisit the golden age of steam train travel. Our team of historians take the ride of a lifetime aboard arguably the most famous locomotive in the world, the Flying Scotsman.
Discover what the South Devon Railway was like before the Beeching cuts of the 1960s and hear how the railways came to the rescue when a fatal disease wiped out London's cattle.
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