Veteran British trainspotter Peter Snow follows the restoration of some classic locomotives.
If you were asked to guess which famed BBC news presenter was a secret trainspotter, well, of course it would be Peter Snow, he of the legendary election-night swingometer.
Snow, now 80 and retired from daily news, first came out as a lifelong railway enthusiast in 2010, when he led Today presenter John Humphrys up to the attic where his elaborate model train set is laid out. Then there was 2016’s Train spotting Live (not to be confused with the stage production of the Irvine Welsh novel, but actually about spotting trains on live TV). And now, there is Great Rail Restorations (Prime, Tuesday, 7.30pm), in which Snow finally fulfils his childhood dream of actually driving a steam locomotive.
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