''The Train Now Departing: Twenty Years After the End of Steam'' is a 1988
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
documentary series about railways that was broadcast 20 years after the end of steam on
British Railways.
It was written and narrated by Anthony Smith.
[ A book to accompany the series was also published by BBC Books with photographs by ]Ivo Peters
Ivo Peters BEM (29 July 1915 – 7 June 1989) was an English railway photographer and filmmaker. Peters spent his life in Bath, Somerset and is best known for his amateur photographs and cine films of steam railways in the British Isles, p ...
.Settle–Carlisle line
The Settle–Carlisle line (also known as the ''Settle and Carlisle'' (S&C)) is a main railway line in northern England. The route, which crosses the remote, scenic regions of the Yorkshire Dales and the North Pennines, runs between Settle J ...
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# The West Highlander (about the ]West Highland Line
The West Highland Line ( gd, Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean - "Iron Road to the Isles") is a railway line linking the ports of Mallaig and Oban in the Scottish Highlands to Glasgow in Central Scotland. The line was voted the top rail journey in the ...
)
# The Holiday Line (about the Waterloo to Exmouth route)
# Steam on the Isle of Man (about the Isle of Man
)
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, image = Isle of Man by Sentinel-2.jpg
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in Europe ...
)
# Lines of Industry (about industrial railway
An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics, or military site. In regions of the world influenced by British ra ...
s)
# The Survivors (about preserved railway
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...
s)
See also
*''Steam Days
''Steam Days'' is a 1986 BBC Two television documentary series written and presented by Miles Kington. Each episode is themed around the history of British steam locomotives and railways, particularly highlighting preserved locomotives operating a ...
''
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1988 British television series debuts
1988 British television series endings
1980s British documentary television series
BBC television documentaries
British English-language television shows