Epping to Hackney

Great British Railway Journeys

BBC TWO - Thu 5 Jan 2012, 18:30

The Royal Gunpowder Mills wil be featured in this episode.

"Following the route of the Great Eastern Line, which ventures from the edge of East Anglia to the centre of the country's financial capital, London, Michael visits Essex to discover why dairy herds travelled there by rail from all over the country in the nineteenth century. He also visits Waltham Abbey to see how the gunpowder made there fuelled the building of an empire..."

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0196yky