Seasons & Episodes
Elgin to Portsoy
Rob Bell seeks out the lost railway from Elgin to Portsoy, a line which served the fishing and whisky industries so vita
Sheffield
Rob starts his journey in the famous steel town of Sheffield, where he’ll be following the old Woodhead Line, through
Dartmoor
Rob’s journey through Dartmoor from Plymouth to Exeter begins in unlikely surrounds: in the garage of model railway en
Lake District
This is the story of a freight line, built to traverse the tricky landscape of the Lake District to transport minerals f
Somerset & Dorset
The story of the Somerset and Dorset line is one of investors, certain of the wealth they would generate, overcoming tre
Wales
Rob Bell visits Wales to examine the story of a lost line between Ruabon and Barmouth. The route represented a sea-chang
Derbyshire
Rob Bell explores more abandoned rail routes, beginning with one that cut an outrageous path through the dramatic hills
The Durham Coalfields
Rob Bell heads to the industrial heartlands of north-east England, beginning on Wearside, where he learns about the worl
North Wales
Rob travels to Bangor in North Wales, where he explores a lost line that was built in 1801 to transport Welsh slate from
Aberdeenshire
Until it closed in 1966 the Deeside Railway followed the River Dee upstream from Aberdeen into what is now the Cairngorm
Norfolk
Rob Bell heads to Norfolk to follow a lost railway through some of the quietest - yet wealthiest - parts of the country.
Edinburgh
Rob Bell explores the Waverley Route, which ran south from Edinburgh for 100 miles through the Scottish Borders to Carli
North Devon
Rob Bell discovers the now-abandoned lines that unlocked the wild coastline of north Devon. He begins by following the d
Highlands
Rob follows an epic 70-mile route along the glorious west coast of Scotland on the Callander and Oban line. Along the r
Cotswolds
Starting out from the Regency splendour of Cheltenham, Rob Bell crosses the Cotswolds, following the 46-mile route of th
East Midlands
Rob Bell follows traces the course of the Great Central Railway, the final great line of the Victorian era and the last
Walking Yorkshire's Lost Railways
Rob is in Yorkshire on the trail of a man once known as the ‘Railway King’. George Hudson rose from farming origins
Walking Cornwall's Lost Railways
Rob explores the copper mining that once dominated Cornwall, following the first two railways as he discovers how the de
Walking Kent’s Lost Railways
Rob checks out a railway line in rural Kent that became extremely prominent during the world wars, The Elham Valley Rail
Walking Northern Ireland’s Lost Railways
Rob explores the lost railways of Northern Ireland - and there are many to choose from. Northern Island is only a little
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