Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways
Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways is a TV show on Channel 5. Chris Tarrant embarks on some epic rail journeys taking in far-flung corners of the globe. The program has been available since 2022. A total of 16 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in May 2024.
Last broadcast:01/05/2024 at 03:00
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Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways
Chris Tarrant travels across Morocco before visiting the sands of the Sahara. He examines whether or not a railway line once traversed the Sahara all the way to Timbuktu.
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1:00:00
Chris explores five countries formerly part of Yugoslavia, which had an extensive railway network before its break-up in the 1990s and the Balkan Wars of Independence that followed.
Series 5
50:00
Chris is on a mission to visit all four corners in six days.
Series 3
50:00
Chris travels through Scandinavia on a journey from the southern fjords to Europe's most northerly passenger station at Narvik, visiting Santa's home town along the way.
Series 2
50:00
Chris sets out to reach the northernmost railway station on Earth in an epic 2,000-mile adventure from Moscow to Arctic Siberia.
Series 4
1:25:00
Chris explores the darkest chapter in railway history - their use by the Nazis.
55:00
Chris travels across Vietnam to understand the country's facinating history.
Series 2
1:00:00
Chris journeys across Japan by rail, meeting one of the great architects of bullet trains, a singing conductor and atomic bomb survivors who kept trams running.
Series 3
1:00:00
Chris travels through Argentina, starting his journey at British-built railway station in Buenos Aires and ending by taking a ride across Patagonia.
1:00:00
Chris travels along the Alaska Railroad, riding through Anchorage and the village of Eklutna as he rides a freight train and the Aurora passenger train.
Series 2
1:00:00
Chris Tarrant sets off from the coast of Chile to cross the Andes by train, traversing inhospitable terrain and suffering altitude sickness.
Series 1
1:00:00
Chris Tarrant has to contend with searing heat, sandstorms and missing tracks in Australia as he follows the 2,000 mile-long line from Adelaide to Darwin.
Series 4
1:00:00
Chris Tarrant travels across Morocco before visiting the sands of the Sahara. He examines whether or not a railway line once traversed the Sahara all the way to Timbuktu.
Series 2
1:00:00
Chris attempts to cross the length of Cuba, the only island in the Caribbean to boast an extensive railway network, starting in Havana in the west.
1:00:00
Chris travels from Bangkok in Thailand to Mandalay in Myanmar, tracing the route of the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, built by Second World War PoWs.