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Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways

Episode 1

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four

Dan Snow looks at how, from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, railways developed into the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Show more

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