Documentary series in which Chris Tarrant explores the world's most extreme railway lines. Chris journeys a thousand miles across Japan to find out if Japanese railways really are the best in the world. Along the way he meets one of the great architects of the bullet trains, a singing conductress and atomic bomb survivors who kept wartime trams running.
Rent/buy the entire series in full 1080p at vimeo.com/ondemand/extremerailways2
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