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)
^ abc"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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