The Train Now Departing

The Train Now Departing: Twenty Years After the End of Steam is a 1988 BBC documentary series about railways that was broadcast 20 years after the end of steam on BR.

There were 6 30 minute episodes:

1. The Long Drag - about the Settle–Carlisle line
2. The West Highlander - about the West Highland Line
3. The Holiday Line - about the Waterloo to Exmouth route
4. Steam on the Isle of Man - about the Isle of Man
5. Lines of Industry - about industrial railways
6. The Survivors - about preserved railways.

A book to accompany the series was also produced, with photographs by Ivo Peters.