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Extreme railway journeys, is a british television documentary series presented by chris tarrant for channel 5. Tied, locked, and bound, professional escape artist jonathan goodwin attempts extreme escapes created by engineer terry stroud. Get exclusive videos, pictures, bios and check out more of your favorite moments from seasons past. It is hosted by matt bown, a train conductor for pan am railways in maine, whose interest is railways and the technology of them, in which. This hourlong show explores the trains and locomotives that aided the growth of travel, further settlement and the development of certain american industries and agricultural ventures. Radio and television composer david lowe provided music for the series.
Extreme trains was very welldone and had niche popularity, but never garnered ratings even as high as modern marvels reruns. The series was first aired in the united states on november 11, 2008 and ran. Sep 21, 2018 chris tarrant crosses the australian outback to find out the truth about an amazing railway. The first episode of extreme railway journeys was broadcast in april, 2020.
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Each episode of the series follows a particular train. Each travel oasis is more jawdropping than the last, including a 150yearold floating fort off the coast of england and an ecofriendly resort built on stilts in mexico. Nov 25, 2008 season 1, episode 3 high speed train first aired. We have 18 episodes of extreme railway journeys in our archive.
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