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From scorching 50°C deserts to freezing -40°C Arctic tundras, railways are constantly battling nature. In this compilation, explore the amazing physics and engineering used to build tracks across sinking bogs, active earthquake faults, freezing permafrost, and hurricane-battered lakes. These are the extreme railways built to survive our planet's deadliest elements.

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Impossible Railways is a unique science and history series that showcases some of the world’s most extraordinary railways, and the daring engineering, that made them possible. Since their meteoric rise in the 19th Century, railways have been at the forefront of modern engineering and transport. They have conquered the World’s mightiest mountains, crossed the wildest waters, penetrated great wildernesses, and mastered the urban streets.

This film was first broadcast: 2017

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