Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Get on board with transport programmes from the BBC
Episode 1—Top Gear, Series 27
Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness head to the searing heat of Ethiopia.
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Episode 1—Top Gear, Series 1
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and Jason Dawe are joined by Harry Enfield.
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F-16: Flying the Fighter Jet—On the Front Line
The BBC gets special access to one of NATO’s most important fighter jets.
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Concorde: A Supersonic Story
The life of the most glamorous plane ever built, told by those whose lives she touched.
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Going with the Flow—The Channel Tunnel - Life on the Inside, Series 1
Meeting the teams above and below ground who keep everything moving through the tunnel.
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Let Go All Lines—Britain's Biggest Warship, Goes to Sea
HMS Queen Elizabeth lands F35B Stealth fighters for the first time.
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Own the Sky: Jet Pack Dreamers
How a lifelong obsession culminated in an attempt to fly the world's first jetpack.
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Episode 1—Planespotting Live, Series 1
Peter Snow leads the nation in a mass planespot live from an aeropark.
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Jumbo Jet Strip-Down—Engineering Giants
A jumbo jet is broken down into parts and then painstakingly reassembled for flight.
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Gas Rig Strip-Down—Engineering Giants
A North Sea gas platform is pulled from the sea and dismantled for recycling.
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Ferry Strip-Down—Engineering Giants
A massive North Sea ferry undergoes the biggest overhaul of its 25-year service.
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On the Move—Britain Beneath Your Feet, Series 1
Dallas Campbell explores how what goes on underground keeps our country on the move.
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Episode 1—The 15 Billion Pound Railway, Under Pressure, Over Budget
Part one of an exclusive documentary following the drama behind Crossrail's construction.
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A Jumbo Jet Engine—How to Build..., Series 1
The story of the thousands of people who design, build and test Rolls-Royce jet engines.
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Weight of Traffic—The Motorway: Life in the Fast Lane
An army of workers carry out overnight repairs to the M6, to the ire of local residents.
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A Railway War Begins—Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo begins his journey in Metz on European tracks built with war in mind.
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Episode 1—Cold War, Hot Jets
How the jet engine gave hope to Britain as the country recovered from World War II.
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The Jumbo Jet—Tuesday Documentary
The jumbo has been called a 'pilot's dream', but will it be an airport's nightmare? (1969)
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Lawnmower—James May: The Reassembler, Series 1
James tries to put a 1959 Suffolk Colt petrol lawnmower back together again.
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A Nuclear Submarine—How to Build..., Series 1
Documentary following the construction of the Astute nuclear submarine.
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Episode 1—Built in Britain
Evan Davis examines a vast tunnel-boring machine carving a new railway deep under London.
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The Ghan: Australia's Greatest Train Journey
One of the world's great rail journeys on Australia's most iconic passenger trains.
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Episode 1—Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways
A look at railways from their beginnings as tracks for coal carts in the 18th century.
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The Golden Age of Coach Travel—Timeshift, Series 10
The 1950s were a time when the coach was king and helped give people a taste of freedom.
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