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The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track

Episode 2: Summer Madness

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Documentary following the staff, passengers and police officers on the railways in and around Leeds during summer. This is the most challenging season for staff, when binge drinkers, cable thieves and trespassers all threaten to delay the trains.

For driver Jason, driving the trains on the 'Real Ale Trail', a pub crawl by train, is the most dreaded shift of the week as drunken partygoers fill his carriages and begin to stumble across the tracks to catch their trains but the real-alers think of it all as harmless fun.

Elsewhere, when a teenager is killed after trespassing on the track, British Transport Police officer Craig has the difficult task of breaking the news to the boy's mother.

To add to the challenges for the staff running the trains in and out of Leeds, it is the wettest summer in a century and flooding brings the network to a standstill. With costly fines for every minute of delay, just one day of flooding costs the industry over a million pounds and ruins thousands of passengers' days. Show less

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