Railways of the Great War

By 1914 almost a century had passed since the world's first locomotives ran in Britain. Railways had unfurled across Europe and the continent had enjoyed four decades of peace and prosperity, but the industrial and technological advances that marked the railway age had also brought deadly new weapons. In August 1914 a mechanised war was unleashed. Join Michael Portillo as he finds out how Britain's railways kept the home front moving and coped with the challenge of sending thousands of men into the unknown. He takes to historic tracks to rediscover the locomotives and wagons of the Great War and hears the stories of the gallant men and women who used them in life and in death. (Viasat)