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Episode 1: Urban Adventures

Summary

Documentary exploring unusual rail networks from around the world, beginning with a look at trains in cities, including an inverted monorail in Wuppertal, Germany. With contributions from Susana Esteves da Fonseca

Review

The Schwebebahn, like a guest vehicle from Thunderbirds, is a suitably grabby way to introduce this six-part series. Literally the “floating train”, this swinging monorail hangs from upside-down V-frames above the city’s river in Wuppertal, Germany. It’s just one solution to the headaches of urban geography that’s offered here, but we also check out the funiculars of Lisbon and New York’s floating freight line.

Overexcitable “hero music” aside, this is an impressive engineering doc that has excavated fascinating stories, leaving the oddest till last in the form of the 19th-century London Necropolis Company, intended to relieve the capital’s overcrowded cemeteries.

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  • Summary

    Documentary exploring unusual rail networks from around the world, beginning with a look at trains in cities, including an inverted monorail in Wuppertal, Germany. With contributions from Susana Esteves da Fonseca

    Review

    The Schwebebahn, like a guest vehicle from Thunderbirds, is a suitably grabby way to introduce this six-part series. Literally the “floating train”, this swinging monorail hangs from upside-down V-frames above the city’s river in Wuppertal, Germany. It’s just one solution to the headaches of urban geography that’s offered here, but we also check out the funiculars of Lisbon and New York’s floating freight line.

    Overexcitable “hero music” aside, this is an impressive engineering doc that has excavated fascinating stories, leaving the oddest till last in the form of the 19th-century London Necropolis Company, intended to relieve the capital’s overcrowded cemeteries.

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    Colour
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