Combat Trains

Veterans and historians tell the story of the Thai-Burma railway and the countless prisoners of war and slave labourers who lost their lives building it.

From the trench to the home front hospital, a medical historian retraces the train journey made by wounded soldiers during World War I.

Auschwitz survivors explore the railways' part in the Nazis' mass murder.

A look into how the efficiency of the rail networks, on both sides, helped cause the stalemate of the First World War.

Eyewitness accounts of how trains were able to bring back troops from Dunkirk, and evacuate hundreds of children to safety during World War II.

The astonishing accounts of four railway journeys that changed history, including the perilous expedition that made a young Winston Churchill world famous.