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Railways: The Making of a Nation Episodes

  1. Time

    How do you organise a rail network in a country made up of separate time zones?

  2. The New Commuters

    How the railways enabled people to live far from the places where they worked.

  3. The Age of Leisure

    How the idea of excursions to distant places became popular from the 1840s onwards.

  4. Food and Shopping

    How the railways changed the population's culinary tastes, particularly in London.

  5. Capitalism and Commerce

    Exploring how railways stimulated great changes to the nation's economy.

  6. A Touch of Class

    How the trains gradually acted as a great catalyst in mixing the classes.