Coast & Country: Railway Walks

Julia Bradbury begins her exploration of Britain's lost rail empire in Derbyshire, the heart of the Peak District, with a walk along the popular Monsal Trail, where limestone cliffs and gorges abound along with Midway Railway tunnels and viaducts.

Julia Bradbury walks along Snowdonia's stunning Mawddach estuary in North Wales, where a railway opened in the 1860s brought a flood of tourists from England.

Julia Bradbury follows the route of a Cornwall railway that hasn't operated for 140 years in a region where mining tin and copper once made Redruth the richest region in the country.

Julia Bradbury walks Scotland's Speyside Way, which follows the route of a railway that once served a remote region home to world famous whisky.

The backstreets of Weymouth seem like an unlikely spot to explore railway history, but Julia Bradbury discovers there was once a short railway that ran south from the Dorset town and across the unique coastal features of Chesil Beach and Portland.

Julia Bradbury follows railways of the Scottish Highlands in her longest and most dramatic walk.