Walk the Line

Great Rail Restorations with Peter Snow

June 2025 •English

Restoration experts restore iconic rail carriages back to their former glory

Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys

June 2025 •English

Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States armed with his 1899 Appleton's Guide-Book to Alaska.

Great Canadian Railway Journeys

June 2025 •English

Michael Portillo explores Canada, armed with his Appleton's Guidebook.

Secrets of the Railways

June 2025 •English

These are the Secrets of the Railways, railroads constructed during turbulent periods and associated with mankind's ugliest deeds.

Railway Adventures Across Australia

June 2025 •English

Railway adventures across Australia follows the exploits of Scott McGregor on his quest to find the famous, unusual and unique trains and stories at the end of the line.

How Trains Changed the World

June 2025 •English

The invention of trains transformed everything about how humans lived. From the movement of goods and population, the design of cities, to conquest and warfare, there are few aspects of civilization that were left untouched by these machines.

Riverland

June 2025 •English

Series exploring life in, on and around three of Northern Ireland's major rivers.

Around the World by Train With Tony Robinson

June 2025 •English

Covering thousands of miles, Sir Tony Robinson takes a whirlwind journey around the globe by train.

Great Continental Railway Journeys

June 2025 •English

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

La passion des trains

June 2025 •French

Great British Railway Journeys

June 2025 •English

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule

June 2025 •English

In 2013, Michaella McCollum from Northern Ireland and Melissa Reid from Scotland were caught at the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Peru trying to smuggle £1.5 million of cocaine into Spain. The pair, also known as the `Peru Two,' were sentenced to almost seven years in one of the most notorious prisons in the world. The series provides a first-hand account from Michaella, a former club hostess in the Spanish nightlife, as she traces her journey from arriving in the foreign country for her first holiday to her downward spiral into the illicit world of drugs and excess.

Ulster by the Sea

June 2025 •English

Series exploring caravan life on the north, east and west coasts of Ulster, Ireland.

Great Asian Railway Journeys

June 2025 •English

Michael Portillo is in Southeast Asia, armed with his 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook. It will lead him on a spectacular 2,500-mile railway adventure across six countries. He explores towering megacities and magnificent mosques.

On the Rails of the Double Headed Eagle

June 2025 •German

The railway age in the Austrian Empire began with the construction of the horse-drawn railway from Linz to Budweis. Plans soon followed to connect the imperial capital of Vienna with the iron and coal deposits in northern Moravia and with the port city of Trieste. In 1837 the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn was opened, in 1857 the Semmeringbahn planned by Karl Ritter von Ghega, overcoming one of the most difficult obstacles on the way to the Adriatic. The crossing of the Alps by train, such as over the Arlberg or the Brenner, is still considered a unique engineering masterpiece. The expansion of the railway network brought epochal changes. Goods and people circulated on an unprecedented scale – life accelerated. It had succeeded in connecting the northern crown lands such as Silesia or Bohemia and Moravia with Carinthia, Tyrol or the coastal region.

Train Cruise

June 2025 •English

Criss-cross Japan by rail. Enjoy an amazing diversity of nature and scenery across the four seasons, exploring both well-known and hidden Japan.

Trains with Pete Waterman

June 2025 •English

Filmed on location across the UK, the one-time owner of the Flying Scotsman presents a four-part series examining the history of Britain's railways

Classic Trains

June 2025 •English

Northern Ireland's Greatest Haunts

June 2025 •English

Some of Northern Ireland's most haunted buildings come under the spotlight of paranormal investigators

Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo

June 2025 •English

Michael Portillo examines the role of the railways in World War I and travels through Britain and Europe uncovering stories from the Great War.