As part of the preparations for the Normandy landings, the Allies bomb the railways around Normandy and organise sabotage operations on railway hubs throughout the country. Ep4: Liberation
Trains were at the heart of the D-Day landing strategy and the liberation of Europe, starting with strategic bombings that aimed to paralyse the entire French rail system. Ep3: Overlord
The German railway was the most successful in the world at the start of the 1930s, but the rise of Nazism and its support for the expansion of automobile power began to curb this rise. Ep2: Barbarossa
Between 1939 and 1945, the war revolutionised British railways as the country had to build new trains, set up secret headquarters, and move men, weapons and equipment. Ep1: The Battle of Britain