The Hairy Bikers' Restoration Road Trip
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201360 minTerminata

The Hairy Bikers' Restoration Road Trip

Rete:BBC Two

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S01E03 - "Episode 3"

Andato in onda il Aug 25, 2013, 8:00 PM

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The Hairy Bikers' Restoration Road Trip followed Si and Dave around the UK as they rediscovered, and helped to fix, a number of lost treasures of the industrial age.The Bikers will travel the length and breadth of the UK to meet those with a passion for both keeping the skills of their ancestors alive, restoring the machines that kept Britain's agriculture, transport, and industry moving. Si and Dave learn how to re-forge the wheel of a steam train, renovate rusted cogs and master hot riveting, uncovering secrets of their own past to get a glimpse of what life was like for their forefathers.

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Stato
Terminata
Lingua
English
Durata
60 min
Prima TV
August 11, 2013
Terminata
August 25, 2013
Programmazione
Sunday alle 21:00

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Episodi (1 Stagione · 3 Episodi)

Episode 1

The Bikers begin their tour of industrial restoration projects by joining some ex-miners who are meticulously restoring Pleasley Colliery in Derbyshire. There is personal passion for Si as he helps to restore asteam winding engine, as his grandfather was a winder.Dave helps to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground by putting Met 1, the tube's oldest working steam train, through its paces as it prepares to carry passengers a century after it went out of service.The Bikers also help fire up a barn engine on a Hampshire farm for the first time in 60 years and discover that the fairground was the last word in Victorian fun.

Aug 11, 2013

60 min

Episode 2

The Hairy Bikers continue their journey around Britain, meeting passionate, skilled heritage volunteers and taking part in exciting restoration projects of our industrial past.It is full steam ahead in Wiltshire as they help rebuild an early traction engine before seeing how they revolutionised farming. In Derbyshire, the duo tackle a hundred-year-old cotton spinning mule that has laid dormant for decades, and attempt to weave their own Hairy Biker cloth. And in Cheshire, they restore a rare barge, once used to transport coal on Britain's canals.

Aug 18, 2013

60 min

Episode 3

Working on the massive job to reconstruct steam train 'The Night Owl', the Bikers forge a steel wheel taller than they are for the biggest locomotive restoration in Britain. Dave's first job was in a steelworks, and so was his dad's, so he's going back to his roots.The boys also help with the oldest steam engine still on-site in the world, sending Dave down into the cylinder to check out its condition after 60 years of neglect.

Aug 25, 2013

60 min

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