The Architecture The Railways Built
The Architecture The Railways Built is a TV show on Yesterday. Tim Dunn explores the stunning architecture that lines the railway network. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 40 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2025.
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1:00:00The Architecture The Railways Built
Tim Dunn revisits his childhood holiday haunts in South Devon, following the route of Brunel's experimental atmospheric railway.
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1:00:00Tim Dunn discovers how two competing Victorian railway companies shaped the city of Lincoln.
1:00:00Tim Dunn explores railway ingenuity at Goole swing bridge in Yorkshire and takes in Edinburgh Waverley from roof to underground vaults.
1:00:00Tim Dunn has the rare privilege of seeing a striking post war Coventry station, through the eyes of its architect, 96 year-old Derrick Shorten.
1:00:00Tim Dunn gets to grips with his local station - London Bridge, meeting the architects who turned this station into a bright, airy and tranquil modern terminus.
1:00:00Tim explores the Channel Tunnel, stopping off at Ashford International to take in this underappreciated piece of 90s railway architecture.
1:00:00Tim Dunn discovers how railway architecture has been repurposed. He starts with Manchester's Castlefield area, where viaducts still dominate the cityscape.
1:00:00Tim heads north of the border to scale a Scottish railway icon - the Forth Bridge, without doubt one of the engineering wonders of the world.
Series 3
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1:00:00Tim Dunn visits the historic Grade 1 Curzon Street Station, to be reborn as part of the terminus for HS2, the rail link between London and Birmingham.
1:00:00Today Tim Dunn heads to the seaside to find out how the railways changed the fortunes of Margate and Ramsgate.
1:00:00Tim Dunn takes a trip through the history of the North Staffordshire Railway Company, admiring the beautiful Stoke Station.
1:00:00Tim Dunn explores London's first passenger railway - the London and Greenwich Railway, on the longest railway viaduct in Britain today.
1:00:00Tim Dunn heads to Bishopstone in Sussex, a seaside station with a difference - it's also a fortress designed to defend the nation from German attack in WWII.
1:00:00Tim Dunn visits the popular Victorian holiday resort Saltburn-by-the-Sea, exploring the North Yorkshire town that owes its very existence to the railways.
1:00:00Tim Dunn heads underground at the magnificent Victorian Bramhope Tunnel in West Yorkshire, one of the longest tunnels in Britain when it was built.
1:00:00Tim Dunn uncovers the secrets above, below and inside London's Charing Cross Station. He also looks at the modern wonder of the Ordsall Chord in Manchester.
1:00:00Tim Dunn explores Brunel's first and last railway projects and looks at a Scottish station with a royal connection.
1:00:00Tim Dunn takes to the tracks in Newcastle to explore a city rich in railway architecture. He also looks at two recording breaking structures in Scotland.
1:00:00Series 4, Episode 10 - Hull
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Tim Dunn explores beautiful Hull Paragon station and finds out how Royal Leamington Spa got a wonderful art deco station. 1:00:00Series 4, Episode 9 - Leeds
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Tim Dunn explores the birthplace of British locomotive manufacturing - Leeds, starting at the Round Foundry.