CHRIS TARRANT: EXTREME RAILWAYS Season 4


Episode #401 – "Destination Timbuktu"
On his first trip of the fourth series, Chris Tarrant travels from the west of Morocco to the east, heading into the desert on a mission to learn if a railway line once crossed the Sahara all the way to Timbuktu in Mali. He begins in Marrakesh, taking in Casablanca and Fez before visiting a town he is convinced has been named in his honor.

Episode #402 – "Crossing the Baltics"
Chris sets out on a mission to cross three former Soviet republics entirely by rail in just one week, travelling through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and uncovers amazing stories and dark secrets from the region's past. He begins in Narva, Estonia, before heading to the capital Tallinn on the country's oldest railway, built by German nobles to connect the Russian imperial capital St. Petersburg with Estonia's ports. He then travels through Latvia and Lithuania, heading to the Russian border on a revolutionary new line.

Episode #403 – "Return to Yugoslavia"
Chris explores five countries that were part of Yugoslavia, a country which had an extensive state-run railway network before its break-up in the 1990s and the Balkan Wars of Independence that followed. From Slovenia, Chris heads east along an old Austro-Hungarian railway that was once used by the Orient Express, pays a visit to a very unusual railway-related battlefield in Bosnia and rides on one of the world's great mountain railways on his way to the Serbian capital Belgrade before finishing his journey in Montenegro.

Episode #404 – "Journey to the Holy Land"
Chris travels through the Middle East to explore what remains of the colonial railways built there more than a hundred years ago. In the Wadi Rum valley, Chris boards a steam train along one of the few bits of the Hejaz railway that remains in working use, following the route through Jordan. Chris crosses the border into Israel as he heads for Jerusalem, which is sacred to more than half of the world's population. Along the way, he visits the ancient city of Petra, as well as Haifa and Tel Aviv.