The End of the Line
Archive footage telling the history of modern Britain. Melvyn Bragg looks at the 1960s, when the Beeching Axe led to the closure of over 2,000 railway stations.
Melvyn Bragg, accompanied by a vintage mobile cinema, travels across the country to show incredible footage preserved by the British Film Institute and other national and regional film archives, to tell the history of modern Britain.
Melvyn visits Sheringham in Norfolk, home of the North Norfolk Heritage Railway, to look back to the 1960s when the Beeching Axe led to the closure of 4,000 miles of track, over 2,000 stations and the loss of 67,000 railway jobs.
Susan Hawkes sees her beloved uncle on film for the first time in twenty years, tending his station garden at Aldeburgh. Lifelong signalman Michael Gatenby comes face to face with his younger self on screen. And there is a trip down memory lane with pop mogul and lifelong train enthusiast Pete Waterman.
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Signalman in the final days of steam railways
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
Series Producer | Dympna Jackson |
Executive Producer | Ruth Pitt |
Broadcasts
- Wed 28 Sep 2011 18:30
- Thu 3 Nov 2011 03:55
- Wed 20 Feb 2013 14:00麻豆官网首页入口 Two Scotland
- Wed 20 Feb 2013 14:45麻豆官网首页入口 Two except Scotland
- Sat 30 Nov 2013 10:10
- Thu 17 Dec 2015 19:30
- Mon 13 Mar 2017 19:30