Adam Hart-Davis investigates Victorian innovations, ideas and inventions in the first of six repeated episodes. Speed Merchants. Hart-Davis explores how the Victorians' obsession with speed led to an age of technological change. Due to the lack of standardised time in Britain, the rapidly expanding rail network often found people left on the platform as their train departed, astheyhadn'ttaken into account the slight time difference between London and Bristol.
Producer John Kent ; Executive producer Caroline van den Bruel