Basic Info

First Air: March 25, 1980

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Last Episode

Name: Railway Mania

Season: 1, Episode: 8

Air Date: 1980-05-13

Runtime: 25 min

Anthony Burton travels from York through Leeds and Harrogate to discover more about Britain's industrial past and the role of railway companies in the 19th Century. Along the way, he finds out about the dark and dangerous work of tunnelling, the different classes of passenger coaches and the grandeur of railway hotels.

The Past at Work

1980 1 seasons 8 episodes

Overview

The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.