The 800 Million Pound Railway Station

La passion des trains

2026

Trainspotting Live

2026

Trainspotting Live will bring three nights of spotting, joy and excitement to BBC Four as Peter Snow, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry and engineer Dick Strawbridge along with a team of rail train enthusiasts revel in the tantalising intricacies, trade secrets and true pleasures of trainspotting... live!

Thames Shipwrecks: A Race Against Time

2026

Documentary series following the salvage of seven shipwrecks from the river Thames

Coastal Railways with Julie Walters

2026

Actor Julie Walters rides upon the UK's most beautiful coastal railways.

The Flying Scotsman

2026

The Flying Scotsman has broken records and starred in movies.

Bloody Tales of the Tower

2026

The extraordinary stories of imprisonment, murder and execution behind the walls of Britains most historic and iconic castle.

Mighty Trains

2026

A journey riding the rails around the world, from the locomotive to rail traffic control to the maintenance depot.

Auf alten Gleisen durch Europas Osten

2026

Building The Olympic Dream

2026

Three-part observational documentary series charting the journey to the London 2012 Olympics.

Welsh Railways

2026

Documentary series about the resurgence of steam power on the Welsh railways, including the ambitious Welsh Highland Railway in Snowdonia.

Mind over Marathon

2026

Nick Knowles challenges ten people with different mental health issues to run the London Marathon. Will it change their lives?

Railways: The Making of a Nation

2026

Historian Liz McIvor explores how Britain's expanding rail network was the spark to a social revolution, starting in the 1800s and continuing through to modern times.

Paul Merton's Secret Stations

2026

More than 150 of Britain’s railway stations are request stops. You have to put out your arm to get the train to stop at the platform. In this series, Paul Merton will travel around the country by train, only getting off at request stops. He’ll explore the history of the stations, and meet the people who live and work around them to learn more about at these unusual and often-overlooked stations.

World's Busiest Railway

2026

From the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Robert Llewellyn explore the science behind the world's busiest railway. With John Sergeant reporting from across India.

The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer

2026

Following workers across the capital for three years as they race to build an enormous super sewer on time and on budget.