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World's Most Dangerous Railway Lines

3 episodes 91%4KCC

Across ice, oceans, and wilderness, railways defy the planet's harshest terrain.

Explore extraordinary rail lines built through alpine snow, unstable mountains, African savanna, and the Indian Ocean. This series reveals the engineering, history, and daily risks behind routes shaped by bridges, tunnels, landslides, storms, and extreme weather. Sign up to see how trains still connect communities across some of the world's most unforgiving landscapes.

Episode guide

3 episodes
1
1The Bernina Express
The Bernina Express fights its way from Switzerland to Italy over 196 bridges and 55 tunnels. The path leads it through deep valleys, wild gorges and over the eternal ice of the Graubünden Alps.
52 min
2
2The Tazara
The Tanzania-Zambia-Railway (Tazara) is one of Africa's most ambitious infrastructure projects. It connects the inland with the coast of East Africa and meant independence from the surrounding apartheid-ruled countries of East Africa.
52 min
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3The Pamban Railway
The Pamban Railway crosses the tropical landscape of Tamil Nadu, the former Madras, for around 600 kilometers. Heavy storms and rain showers make the route a challenge for Indian Railways to this day.
52 min
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