For five days in February 1989 the BBC Railwatch camera team followed British Rail staff in a live to air broadcast on the occasion of the electrification of the Eastern Coast Main Line from London to York.
Air Date: 1989-02-13
All year round, 24 hours a day, British Rail is part of the nation's life blood. It is used, abused, tolerated, criti...
Air Date: 1989-02-14
Edinburgh Inter-City 125 heads north, behind the scenes its progress is monitored and controlled by many an unseen ha...
Air Date: 1989-02-15
Twenty-four hours a day, the 'merry-go-rounds' - coal trains that never stop - run from colliery to power station. El...
Air Date: 1989-02-16
They used to be passengers; now they're called customers: a constant stream of people across the concourse, onto the ...
Air Date: 1989-02-17
British Rail's East Coast main line is a railway in the throes of change. From London to Edinburgh the overhead wires...