National Geographic - Great Railway Adventures (2010) Part 1 Steam

Britain's railways were key to the nation’s development – they helped facilitate the Industrial Revolution, the suburbs, commuter-lifestyle and popular holiday destinations. Writer and architectural historian Dan Cruickshank takes us back into a different world of steam trains and explores the fascinating successes and disasters that pushed their engineering forward showing the history that shaped Great Britain.

Part 1 Steam

In Steam Revolution, Dan explores the earliest steam railways, discovering how railway pioneers George and Robert Stephenson created the first regular rail service from Manchester to Liverpool in 1830. He reveals how the early railway magnates won and lost fortunes in the investment bonanza that became known as Railway Mania and which created Britain s modern rail network

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