The Architecture the Railways Built - Season 3

The Architecture the Railways Built - Season 3

Season 3

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Episodes10
DatesSep 13, 2021 - Nov 15, 2021
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Episodes

Newcastle
Season 3Episode 160 min

Newcastle

Tim Dunn takes to the tracks in Newcastle to explore a city rich in railway architecture. He looks at two recording breaking structures in Scotland and marvels at the quirky design of a funicular in the German highlands.

Sep 13, 2021
Wharncliffe
Season 3Episode 260 min

Wharncliffe

Tim explores Brunel's first and last railway projects and looks at a Scottish station with a royal connection. Later he takes in the delights of a Portuguese station which looks more like a palace than a railway terminus.

Sep 20, 2021
Charing Cross
Season 3Episode 360 min

Charing Cross

Tim uncovers the secrets above, below and inside London's Charing Cross Station. He also looks at the modern wonder of the Ordsall Chord in Manchester and tells the tale of two stations in the Swedish town of Boras.

Sep 27, 2021
Bramhope
Season 3Episode 460 min

Bramhope

Tim heads underground at the magnificent Victorian Bramhope Tunnel in West Yorkshire.

Tim also visits Fawley Hill, home to Sir Bill McAlpine's unique collection of railway memorabilia, and to epic Dresden Station in Germany.

Oct 4, 2021
Saltburn
Season 3Episode 560 min

Saltburn

Tim Dunn visits the popular Victorian holiday resort Saltburn-by-the-Sea, exploring the North Yorkshire town that owes its very existence to the railways.

As well as admiring the town's grand station, Tim stops off at the former railway hotel with its own private platform, the impressive seaside pier and eco-friendly cliff tramway.

Tim also takes a look at Grade 2 listed Brislington Tram Depot in Bristol, and uncovers the story of Aleksandrow?Kujawski, a Polish border station that welcomed Russian Royalty.

Oct 11, 2021
Bishopstone
Season 3Episode 660 min

Bishopstone

Tim Dunn heads to Bishopstone in Sussex, a seaside station with a difference – it's also a fortress designed to defend the nation from German attack in World War Two. Tim also looks at the Selby Diversion – a 1980's engineering triumph. At Stockholm Central in Sweden, Tim discovers that building a large station in a city made up of fourteen islands was a town planner's nightmare.

Oct 18, 2021
Greenwich and Deptford
Season 3Episode 760 min

Greenwich and Deptford

Tim explores London's first passenger railway – the London and Greenwich Railway, on the longest railway viaduct in Britain today.

He also marvels at the mechanics of the Deptford Creek Lifting Bridge and the brewing businesses that operate under the arches of the viaduct today.

The programme explores Alnwick Station, a disused station in the North East of England, reinvented as one of the UK's largest second-hand book shops. And in Central Europe, the Zampach Viaduct in the Czech Republic was built as part of a much-needed rail link to transport timber to the capital, Prague.

Oct 25, 2021
Stoke
Season 3Episode 860 min

Stoke

Tim Dunn takes a trip through the history of the North Staffordshire Railway Company, admiring the beautiful Stoke Station. He also looks at the revolutionary Byker Viaduct which carries the Newcastle Metro over the Ouseburn Valley.

In Poland, the Elblag Canal is a unique piece of engineering - half railway and half waterway.

Nov 1, 2021
Ramsgate
Season 3Episode 960 min

Ramsgate

Today Tim Dunn heads to the seaside to find out how the railways changed the fortunes of Margate and Ramsgate.

Nov 8, 2021
Curzon Street
Season 3Episode 1060 min

Curzon Street

Tim Dunn visits the historic Grade 1 Curzon Street Station, to be reborn as part of the terminus for HS2, the rail link between London and Birmingham.

Nov 15, 2021

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