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Where to watch "Combat Trains"

8. WWII: The Homefront

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Eyewitness accounts of how trains were able to bring back troops from Dunkirk, and evacuate hundreds of children to safety during World War II.

7. WWI

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A look into how the efficiency of the rail networks on both sides helped cause the stalemate of the First World War.

6. Secrets and Lies

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Learn how Lawrence of Arabia used guerilla warfare against the Ottoman Empire's railways; what secrets lie under New York's Grand Central Station.

5. Critical Cargo

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The astonishing accounts of four railway journeys that changed history, including the perilous expedition that made a young Winston Churchill world famous.

4. The First Railroad War

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The story of the Great Locomotive Chase - an attempt by Northern spies to steal steam locomotive The General during the American Civil War.

3. Ambulance Trains

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From the trench to the home front hospital, a medical historian retraces the train journey made by wounded soldiers during World War I.

2. The Death Railway

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Veterans and historians tell the story of the Thai-Burma railway and the countless prisoners of war and slave labourers who lost their lives building it.

1. Nazi Railways

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Auschwitz survivors explore the railways' part in the Nazis' mass murder.

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