The Architecture The Railways Built
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1:00:00The Architecture The Railways Built
Tim Dunn explores beautiful Hull Paragon station and finds out how Royal Leamington Spa got a wonderful art deco station.
1:00:00Tim Dunn explores the birthplace of British locomotive manufacturing - Leeds, starting at the Round Foundry.
1:00:00Tim Dunn revisits his childhood holiday haunts in South Devon, following the route of Brunel's experimental atmospheric railway.
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 1
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1:00:00Tim Dunn explores Metroland, the area around the Metropolitan Railway, and in Great Malvern learns about the woman behind the decorative 1860s station.
1:00:00Tim Dunn visits the Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales and tours the breath-taking stations of the Hungerbergbahn in Innsbruck.
1:00:00Tim Dunn visits Swindon's railway village, which became home to Great Western's enormous works and he also explores the dark and secret past of Milan's monumental station.
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1:00:00Today Tim Dunn heads to the seaside to find out how the railways changed the fortunes of Margate and Ramsgate.
Series 2 1:00:00
1:00:00Tim Dunn visits Wemyss Bay Station in Inverclyde - an architectural gem. He also explores the engineering marvel that is Blackfriars station in central London.
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1:00:00Tim Dunn explores St Pancras station in London and its sister hotel - built to show off the might of the Midlands, and learns about Castle Howard station in North Yorkshire.
1:00:00Tim Dunn visits the Ffestiniog in Wales originally built to transport slate from mountain to coast and learns about Amsterdam Centraal.
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1:00:00Tim Dunn explores Huddersfield's Grade I listed station and examines the station's clock, and visits Cologne's magnificent Hohenzollern Bridge in Germany.
1:00:00Tim visits Sheffield station which been reinvented for the 21st century. He also helps to restore the Bennerley Viaduct in the Erewash valley.
1:00:00Tim Dunn goes behind the scenes at Bristol Temple Meads, a Grade 1 listed station, and is given special access to Brunel's old Tudor station and boardroom.