Three generations of the Grant family live and work on the Severn Valley branch of the Great Western Railway, from the Victorian era to the Second World War.
Episode 1
The Permanent Way (Part 1)
1860: Robbie Grant injures his leg placing explosive fuses in an embankment while working as a Navvy with his father Giant while local farmers oppose the new railway. Engineer John Fowler has high expectations of manager Henry Bridgman and low expectations of the navvies on payday. Robbie has to prove himself in the sight of the other navvies, as he gets to know their landlady Martha's niece Deborah.
Episode 2
The Permanent Way (Part 2)
Engineer of the line Mr Fowler offers Robbie a job, and Deborah teaches him to read and write. Giant plans to seek Martha's hand in marriage. Tragedy strikes and Robbie wants to leave instead of taking his job at Hampton Loade.
Andrew Hughes
Andy Grant
Colin Douglas
George Grant
June Brown
Elsie Grant
Annette Ekblom
Marjerie Grant
Phillip Joseph
Geoffrey Green
Bill Dean
Ted Jarvis
Katherine Roberts
Alice Stone
1990 · ★ 8.1
1989 · ★ 6.7
2018 · ★ 8.4
2023 · ★ 7.6
2017 · ★ 8.0
2020 · ★ 8.6
2018 · ★ 8.5
2010 · ★ 8.2
2015 · ★ 7.0
1974 · ★ 8.0
2018 · ★ 6.5
1976 · ★ 7.9
2001 · ★ 7.1
2024 · ★ 8.2
2013 · ★ 7.2
2011 · ★ 7.5
2021 · ★ 8.1
2002 · ★ 6.5
1998 · ★ 6.4
1985 · ★ 7.5
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