Summary
Railway expert Tim Dunn visits stations, viaducts, signal boxes, tunnels, pedestrian passages and workshops among other stunning structures that owe their existence to the railway.
Railway expert Tim Dunn visits stations, viaducts, signal boxes, tunnels, pedestrian passages and workshops among other stunning structures that owe their existence to the railway.
Railway historian and fan Tim Dunn looks as if he’s about to enter the Temple of Dendur rather than an unprepossessing-looking railway shed in Derbyshire.
But this isn’t just any railway shed, it’s the last operating railway turntable in Britain containing a “little nest of engines… the real life version of Thomas the Tank Engine.” And Dunn is thrilled to bits.
He even gets to have a go working the turntable with an actual engine on it: “I could not be happier!” The shed, at Barrow Hill, was saved from demolition and restored after a massive, three-year fund-raising drive, spearheaded by one man, an enthusiast who couldn’t bear to see it disappear.
Dunn also visits Bath and its lovely, elevated Brunel-designed Bath Spa station, whose Jacobean design and architecture bucks the elegant Georgian symmetry of the rest of the city.
There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.
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Self | Tim Dunn |
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Composer | Matthew Slater |
Barrow Hill
Railway historian and fan Tim Dunn looks as if he’s about to enter the Temple of Dendur rather than an unprepossessing-looking railway shed in Derbyshire.
But this isn’t just any railway shed, it’s the last operating railway turntable in Britain containing a “little nest of engines… the real life version of Thomas the Tank Engine.” And Dunn is thrilled to bits.
He even gets to have a go working the turntable with an actual engine on it: “I could not be happier!” The shed, at Barrow Hill, was saved from demolition and restored after a massive, three-year fund-raising drive, spearheaded by one man, an enthusiast who couldn’t bear to see it disappear.
Dunn also visits Bath and its lovely, elevated Brunel-designed Bath Spa station, whose Jacobean design and architecture bucks the elegant Georgian symmetry of the rest of the city.
There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.
role | name |
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Self | Tim Dunn |
role | name |
---|---|
Composer | Matthew Slater |
There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.