DVDs & Blurays in the Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways series

For Chris Tarrant, travelling by train is the best possible way to explore a country, meet the real people and unlock its culture and history. In the third series of Extreme Railways, he explores the Alaska Railroad, sets out from a British-built station in Buenos Aires, travels ...1500 miles from Cape Town, South Africa to the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, travels the route of the Soviet-era Trans-Caucasus Railway departing the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku and ending with an epic journey through Scandinavia and traveling to Rovaniemi in Finland, know as Santa's home town.
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TV Presenter Chris Tarrant travels around the world to ride some of the most extreme railways that wind their way through some of the harshest terrain on Earth. Eps: 1) CONQUERING THE ALPS: Chris crosses mountains, deserts, jungles and war-zones to discover how railways have been... central to to the history of 4 very different parts of the world. He begins with a journey across the Alps, starting in Vienna. 2) THE TRAIN IN SPAIN: Chris embarks upon a 1,000 mile journey across Spain discovering how the railways were involved in tensions over Gibraltar, the Civil War and WWII. But Spain has quietly become a world leader in train technology. 3) EXTREME NUCLEAR RAILWAY: A JOURNEY TOO FAR? Chris travels across Ukraine, taking in some of the country's 13,000 miles of railways. Along the way he takes in Kiev and Chernobyl, finishing by the banks of the Black Sea in Odessa. 4) THE REUNIFICATION EXPRESS: Chris embarks on a rail trip across Vietnam, exploring its French colonial history along the way, as he sets off along the Reunification Line from Ho Chi Minh in the south - to Hanoi in the north.
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For Chris Tarrant, travelling by train is the best possible way to explore a country, meet the real people and unlock its culture and history. In the second series of Extreme Railways he explores some of the most beautiful environments on Earth - the Andes Mountains in Bolivia an...d Chile, the jungles of Thailand and Myanmar, the Siberian Arctic, the tropical island of Cuba, the Canadian wilderness, and weird and wonderful Japan. Travelling on an amazing variety of trains, old, new, fast and extremely slow, Chris sees each country, rich in history, culture and stunning scenery, form the inside out, taking it all in his stride with humour, passion and good old fashioned curiosity. Railroad to Mandalay Chris Tarrant is in South East Asia to experience two very different railways. From Bangkok in Thailand to Mandalay in Myanmar, Chriss extreme railway journey takes him nearly two thousand miles through some extraordinary places, rich in history and culture as well as stunning scenery on a series of trains that will push his love of travelling by rail to the limits. Crossing the Andes Chris Tarrant attempts to cross the Andes by train. From the coast of Chile he must traverse some of the highest, driest and most inhospitable environments on the planet, hitch rides on some very unusual trains and deal with altitude sickness at over 4000 metres to reach the capital of Bolivia, Sucre. One Way Ticket to Siberia Chris Tarrant sets out to reach the northernmost railway station on Earth inside Russia's Arctic Circle. Chris embarks on the longest railway journey he's done yet, on some of the toughest railway lines on the planet, built in terrible conditions under brutal regimes. Its an epic 2000 mile adventure from Moscow into Arctic Siberia. Slow Train to Guantanamo Bay Chris Tarrant attempts to cross the length of Cuba, the only island in Caribbean to boast an extensive railway network from Havana in the West to the far east of the Island. Experiencing old and battered trains t
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