The Train Now Departing: Twenty Years After the End of Steam is a 1988 BBC Two documentary series about railways that was broadcast 20 years after the end of steam on British Railways.[1] It was written and narrated by Anthony Smith.[1] A book to accompany the series was also published by BBC Books with photographs by Ivo Peters.[2]
There were six 30 minute episodes:
- The Long Drag (about the Settle–Carlisle line[1]
- The West Highlander (about the West Highland Line)
- The Holiday Line (about the Waterloo to Exmouth route)
- Steam on the Isle of Man (about the Isle of Man)
- Lines of Industry (about industrial railways)
- The Survivors (about preserved railways)
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- ^ a b c "The Train Now Departing". BBC Genome. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ The Train Now Departing. BBC Books. 1988. ISBN 0-563-20696-9.
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