Michael Portillo's Railways of the Great War

Michael Portillo's Railways of the Great War (1) British series from 2014 Genre: Documentary This episode: A Railway War Begins. Michael begins his quest in Metz, to trace the European tracks built with war in mind, charting the birth of the railway war at a small station in Luxembourg. By 1914 almost a century had passed since the world's first locomotives ran in Britain. Railways had unfurled across Europe and the continent had enjoyed four decades of peace and prosperity, but the industrial and technological advances that marked the railway age had also brought deadly new weapons. In...