Series
Mighty Trains
Documentary
A journey riding the rails around the world, from the locomotive to rail traffic control to the maintenance depot.
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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 6 epS2 · 6 epS3 · 6 epS4 · 6 ep
1Glacier Express16 Oct 2016 · 46mThe Glacier Express features cutting-edge versions of old technology to pull the train up the steepest slopes on its route across the Swiss Alps.
2The Shinkansen23 Oct 2016 · 46mJapans Tokaido Shinkansen, known as the bullet train, operates on a dedicated railway line at up to 285 km/h.
3The Canadian30 Oct 2016 · 46mThe iconic Canadian travels between Vancouver and Toronto; passengers travel in vintage streamliner cars built in the 1950s.
4White Pass and Yukon Route7 Nov 2016 · 46mThe White Pass and Yukon route was built in 1869 to take miners and supplies to the Klondike gold fields, and was the worlds first containerized freight railway.
5North Rail Express13 Nov 2016 · 46mThe highly-specialized North Rail Express container train travels from Narvik in the Norwegian Arctic Circle to Oslo, delivering cargo of fish as quickly as possible.
6The Ghan20 Nov 2016 · 46mThe Ghan takes passengers on a three-day, two-night journey through Australia, from Adelaide in the south to Darwin in the north; the Pichi Pichi Railway offers passengers a trip on an original steam locomotive train.
Details
- First aired
- 16 Oct 2016
- Last aired
- 29 Aug 2021
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- Discovery
- Episodes
- 24
- Votes
- 4 on TMDB
Cast
Teddy WilsonSelf - Presenter
