Episodes

• World's Greatest Train Journeys from Above Compilation

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  With a focus on engineering challenges, we’ll follow extraordinary railroads across spectacular scenery through the lens of aerial photography.

  Next Showing

  Wednesday 14 May at 18:50 CAT

  On National Geographic

  Next Showing

  Wednesday 14 May at 23:50 CAT

  On National Geographic

• Glacier Express

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  The Glacier Express train in the Swiss Alps is an engineering marvel traveling over treacherous gorges and through huge mountain ranges.

• Canada's Wilderness Railroad

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  The Winnipeg to Churchill train crosses the province of Manitoba, along a route that requires determination, force, and fire to keep it running.

• Copper Canyon Railway

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  The luxury El Chepe train is a wonder of Mexican engineering that took 100 years to build through the world’s largest canyon region, Copper Canyon.

• Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

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  The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is an engineering classic in the lap of the Himalayas, traveling through precarious terrains and 5 climatic zones.

• Australia's Outback Railway

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  Crossing the harsh terrain of the Australian outback, the Ghan, a luxury train, and its 3,000 kms of track need constant and skilled maintenance.

• Norway's Bergen Railway

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  The Bergen line is a triumph of engineering in the face of extraordinary natural obstacles: fjords, freezing conditions and rogue wildlife.