Railwatch — Season 1, Episode 3: Day 3
Documentary • 46 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
Twenty-four hours a day, the 'merry-go-rounds' - coal trains that never stop - run from colliery to power station. Elsewhere on the railway other commodities are being moved, often in whole train loads. And in the small hours of the morning, the passenger train-sets are being prepared for another day's work. Railwatch reports on the railway the public never sees.
About Railwatch
For five days in February 1989 the BBC Railwatch camera team followed British Rail staff in a live to air broadcast on the occasion of the electrification of the Eastern Coast Main Line from London to York.