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C5, 9pm Chris Tarrant seems to have carved out a niche as a train travel presenter, such is his love for the railways. And indeed he attacks this fourth series with enthusiasm as he takes some pretty epic journeys across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

He’s not afraid to get stuck in, resulting in various mishaps including being stranded in a desert, locked up in jail and getting a little too close to a Cold War nuclear reactor. On his first trip, he travels from Morocco across the Sahara to Timbuktu.

Transport includes a narrow-gauge railway (hastily built before World War One), an air-conditioned electric train and the glorious Train du Desert straight into the Sahara.

But the question is, will the train ever make it out again?