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RAIL TRAVEL
John McCarthy travels to the National Railway Museum in York to meet its director Andrew Scott and Ian Macbeth, former Managing Director of Great Railway Journeys. They take a look back at the past of rail travel in the form of some of the great steam trains that once broke speed records which rival those of today. John also discusses the current expansion of Europe鈥檚 high speed rail network, looks at the viability of magnetic levitation, and hears about the first new steam engine to be built in Britain for nearly fifty years.

John stands on the footplate of a locomotive to learn the tricks of the trade from Tracey Parkinson, a fireman and driver and settles himself into the comfort of a 1930s Pullman car to hear from Geoff and Sheelagh Cooke about the railway equivalent of the luxury cruise.