The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the first railway lines in the world in this country. Portraits, paintings, engraving and prints are used together with live shooting to evoke the atmosphere and illustrate the construction of the railways and the locomotives which ran on them.
John Read
Director
McQueen74%
Above Majestic73%
180° South72%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Class of ‘9271%
Sherman's March65%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Directed by John Ford70%
Maternal Instinct71%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Public Speaking70%
Voyeur59%
Hamilton's America66%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments74%
21 Up74%
Being James Bond77%
Maidentrip70%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
