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The definitive story of Britain's railway revolution and the people who made it happen.
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Episode 1
58 mins
Dan Snow looks at the early pioneering days of the railways, as George Stephenson builds the railway between Liverpool and Manchester across Chat Moss, providing a much-needed goods route between industrial Manchester and the sea.





