Name: Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Season 2
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012

S02 Episode 1

Railroad to Mandalay

TV and radio presenter Chris Tarrant journeys by rail through some of the world's most challenging terrain, beginning with a trip from Bangkok in Thailand to Mandalay in Myanmar. Chris traces the route of the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, a 250-mile long line built by the Japanese during World War Two using enslaved Asian workers and Allied Prisoners of War, visiting the famous site of the Bridge on the River Kwai along the way.

45 mins · Thu, 1 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 1

Railroad to Mandalay

On his way from Bangkok to Mandalay, Chris travels 3200km on a series of trains that put his love for railroad travel to the test.

43 mins · Thu, 1 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 2

Crossing the Andes

Chris continues his exploration of the world's most extreme railway lines. He attempts to cross the Andes, setting off from the coast of Chile and heading for the Bolivian capital of Sucre. Along the way he traverses some of the driest and most inhospitable environments on the planet, hitches rides on unusual trains and deals with altitude sickness at more than 3,000 metres.

45 mins · Thu, 8 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 2

Crossing the Andes

Starting on the coast of Chile, Chris attempts to cross the Andes by train. To do so he must hitch rides on some unusual trains and navigate some of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.

43 mins · Thu, 8 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 3

One Way Ticket to Siberia

The TV presenter continues his travels along the world's most challenging railways, setting out to reach the northernmost railway station on Earth, inside Russia's Arctic Circle. This is an epic 2,000-mile adventure from Moscow into Arctic Siberia, and begins with a marathon 19-hour leg. Along the way he enjoys a reindeer stew with a local family and takes the controls of one of the massive locomotives that power the trains, before pressing on along railways built under the brutal regime of Joseph Stalin.

45 mins · Thu, 15 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 3

One-Way Ticket to Siberia

Chris' quest to reach the northernmost railway station on Earth takes the form of a 3000 km trip from Moscow to Arctic Siberia.

43 mins · Thu, 15 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 4

Slow Train to Guantanamo Bay

Chris attempts to cross the length of Cuba, the only island in the Caribbean to boast an extensive railway network, from Havana in the west to the far east of the island.

45 mins · Thu, 22 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 4

Slow Train to Guantanamo Bay

Chris crosses the islands of Cuba, on old and battered trains rich with history, to make it to Guantanamo Bay.

44 mins · Thu, 22 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 5

The Great Japanese Train Ride

Chris journeys a thousand miles across Japan to find out if Japanese railways really are the best in the world. Along the way he meets one of the great architects of the bullet trains, a celebrity Station Master cat, a singing conductress and atomic bomb survivors who kept wartime trams running.

45 mins · Thu, 29 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 5

The Great Japanese Train Ride

Chris puts popular wisdom to the test, checking to see whether the Japanese railway system truly is the best in the world. He meets a bullet train architect and atomic bomb survivors who kept the trams running during the war.

43 mins · Thu, 29 Oct 2015

S02 Episode 6

The Railway that Created Canada

Documentary series in which Chris Tarrant explores the world's most extreme railway lines. Chris discovers how a 2,500-mile transcontinental railway was built against huge odds in just a few decades, and turned a vast wilderness of isolated communities into the country we now know as Canada.

45 mins · Thu, 5 Nov 2015

S02 Episode 6

The Railway That Created Canada

Against the odds, Canada's 4023km transcontinental railway took only a few decades to build, serving to connect hitherto isolated communities.

44 mins · Thu, 5 Nov 2015

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