Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys is a Documentary programme.

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Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys: The Great Japanese Train Ride

Series 2, episode 5

Directed by (unconfirmed)
Neil Ferguson

Chris journeys a thousand miles across Japan, starting out in Nagasaki, where the story of eastern railways began 150 years ago with the help of an enterprising Brit. In Fukuoka, he visits one of the Bullet Train's giant repair centres and in Hiroshima, he unravels what happened to its streetcar network after the world's first atomic bomb devastated the city. Along the way, Chris also meets a superstar cat and a singing conductor, while also checking into a popular trainspotter hotel and riding a steam-powered mountain railway

Cast (unconfirmed)

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Neil Ferguson
Hugh Whitworth
Nina Carbone
Dale Templar
Melanie Darlaston