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Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Ice Train to Nowhere
44 mins
Chris heads to Alaska, but his plan to travel along the Alaska Railroad does not get off to a good start in Seward as there are no trains running, so he hitches a ride on a track inspector's car before riding a freight train to Anchorage.
Episode 2
Night Train to Patagonia
44 mins
Chris sets out from a British-built station in Buenos Aires taking the overnight train to the pampas lowlands. In the port of Bahia Blanca he meets four veterans of the Falklands War before ending his journey by riding La Trochita.
Episode 3
The Diamond Railway
44 mins
Chris travels 1,500 miles from Cape Town, South Africa to the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe following the ambitious railway envisaged by Cecil Rhodes. He also travels to Kimberley to explore the diamond mine where Rhodes made his fortune.
Episode 4
Trans-Caucasus Railway
44 mins
Chris travels the route of the Soviet-era Trans-Caucasus Railway departing the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. He visits the Georgian capital Tbilisi before heading to the holiday resort of Borjomi to see a bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel.
Episode 5
On the Xmas Express
44 mins
Chris Tarrant stars in a special Christmas edition of the show. He embarks upon an epic journey across Scandinavia starting from the South-West coast of Norway. Chris travels to the Norwegian capital Oslo via a blizzard-prone mountain region that once doubled as the ice planet Hoth in the film Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He then heads to Stockholm where he tours around the Swedish capital on its newly restored tram system. Chris and his film crew then cross over into Finland to visit Rovaniemi, which is known as the home town of Santa Claus. Chris also spends a very chilly night in an ice hotel and then boards a huge iron-ore train travelling through ice, snow and darkness towards his final destination back in Norway, Narvik.
