Seasons & Episodes
Day 1
All year round, 24 hours a day, British Rail is part of the nation's life blood. It is used, abused, tolerated, criticis
Day 2
Edinburgh Inter-City 125 heads north, behind the scenes its progress is monitored and controlled by many an unseen hand.
Day 3
Twenty-four hours a day, the 'merry-go-rounds' - coal trains that never stop - run from colliery to power station. Elsew
Day 4
They used to be passengers; now they're called customers: a constant stream of people across the concourse, onto the pla
Day 5
British Rail's East Coast main line is a railway in the throes of change. From London to Edinburgh the overhead wires ar
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