The Train Now Departing

The Train Now Departing: Twenty Years After the End of Steam is a 1988 BBC Two documentary series about railways that was broadcast 20 years after the end of steam on British Railways. It was written and narrated by Anthony Smith. A book to accompany the series was also published by BBC Books with photographs by Ivo Peters.

There were six 30 minute episodes:


 * 1) The Long Drag (about the Settle–Carlisle line
 * 2) The West Highlander (about the West Highland Line)
 * 3) The Holiday Line (about the Waterloo to Exmouth route)
 * 4) Steam on the Isle of Man (about the Isle of Man)
 * 5) Lines of Industry (about industrial railways)
 * 6) The Survivors (about preserved railways)