Featured Playlists
Garden Railway - The Discovery Series
The full Discovery series - join Mark Found as he takes over the back garden and builds a G Scale model railway
Miniature Pleasures
Giles Favell introduces this popular series for those who love their railways on the small side. Everything from 5" to 15" gets covered and, like many programmes on the Railway Channel, it's all been lovingly filmed and produced by Mark Found
Narrow Gauge In The Garden
The popular series for 16mm garden railway modellers presented by Ian Stock. Actually, anybody with a love of narrow gauge railways will enjoy this series because some of the lines are fantastic. And it's all been lovingly filmed by professional cameraman and producer Mark Found
Model Railways
We love model railways of all shapes and sizes. If you like them too then you've just found the best, professionally produced model railway archive on the internet. Enjoy!
Railway Roundabout - The Original 1950's - 60's series
In the lates 1950s and early 1960s the BBC broadcast a series of television programmes called Railway Roundabout. These programmes featured many lines which were later closed and locomotives that were about to disappear forever. Filmed in colour and black and white and produced to professional broadcast standards these titles have stood the test of time and are a real insight into the Steam Era in Britian in the 50s and 60s.
Distant Signal - programmes from US rail fan Danny Harmon
Danny Harmon is known as Distant Signal on YouTube. With over 730,000 views, train enthusiasts all over the country enjoy watching Danny's self narrated and produced videos.
Tracks Ahead - US TV series
The magazine-style series explores every aspect of the railroads of the world. You'll see railroad prototypes, models, personalities and lore covering not only the railways and modelers of the past, but of the present and future.
Classic Trains - British TV Series narrated by John Peel
Exploring the "golden age" of trains - a period of privately owned, competitive railway companies - this series details the early explosion of competitive fervour which resulted in the carving-up of the English countryside to accommodate the new "iron horses". From those dramatic and turbulent beginnings, viewers are led through the birth, demise and possible resurgence of the much loved and environmentally friendly rail-cars and trams, and behind the scenes of one of the busiest commuter systems in the world - the London Underground.
Vintage UK Railway Films
The railways, being as they are, an intrinsic part of everyday life have been well - documented by film makers - and this playlist brings together a fine ensemble of black and white and early colour films and documentaries.
Vintage US Railroad films
The railroad companies of the US were quick off the mark to promote their lines and services and, in hindsight, did a marvelous job of documenting all aspects of American railroad life.
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