Fred visits an open cast mine near Wigan to get coal to power his engine, then goes to Astley Green Mining Museum which houses Lancashire's only surviving pi... read more
Fred reaches Cumbria where iron ore was once mined on a large scale, and enjoys the Lake District on a friend's steam boat. It's then on to the Florence Mine... read more
Fred and his steersman Alf travel up to Scotland where they marvel at the ingenuity of the Falkirk wheel and visit one of the few surviving traditional iron ... read more
Fred visits Ryhope pumping station in Sunderland and meets the volunteers who maintain the museum, travels across the Middlesborough transporter bridge and s... read more
Fred fulfils an ambition by driving across the imposing Scammonden Bridge over the M62, then visits Sheffield to take a tour round a forge and to watch cruci... read more
Fred stops off at Andy Thornton's, a company that makes ornate carvings, moves on to Worsborough to have a go at making hot forge rivets, then travels down t... read more
Leaving the engine to be fixed, Fred visits David Ragsdale, a skilled pattern maker who just happens to own six steam engines. He then meets a man who runs a... read more
Fred meets up with a few old friends at the North Staffs and Cheshire Traction Engine Club. He visits a pumping station with a great triple expansion engine,... read more
red, Alf and Jimmy continue their investigation of the Black Country by watching the skills of an authentic chain maker, producing chains in the same way as ... read more
Fred Dibnah reaches the final stage of his monumental journey around Britain on his traction engine.
This episode begins in the mountains of Snowdonia, wh... read more
Fred completes his journey by visiting the Welsh Slate Museum, then the world's first boat lift in Cheshire before returning home to Bolton. He makes one fin... read more