Abandoned Engineering
Abandoned Engineering
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Abandoned Engineering

Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.

7.4 / 10
2017
15 seasons
145 episodes
Documentary

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.

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Abandoned Engineering | Tuesdays at 8pm

Cast

Tom Ward

Tom Ward

Jim Meigs

Jim Meigs

Rob Bell

Rob Bell

Lynette Nusbacher

Lynette Nusbacher

Sascha Auerbach

Sascha Auerbach

Dominic Selwood

Dominic Selwood

Geoff Wawro

Geoff Wawro

Dougal Jerram

Dougal Jerram

Michele Mitchell

Michele Mitchell

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

James Corum

James Corum

Andrew Gough

Andrew Gough

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Seasons

  • Silent Cities

    1.Silent Cities

    18-02-201744m

    Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved. We explore the worlds strang...

  • Mission: Space

    2.Mission: Space

    25-02-201744m

    We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information about the borders of space. We ask how the shattered remains of a s...

  • Lost Bridges

    3.Lost Bridges

    21-03-201744m

    Soaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been at the cutting edge of engineering. We travel high into the mountains of the Co...

  • Ghost Ships

    4.Ghost Ships

    28-03-201744m

    Exploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after the First World War, and Mallows Bay, home to 200 wrecks colonised by wildlife.

  • Quest for Power

    5.Quest for Power

    04-04-201744m

    How Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla in his thwarted quest to prove the US with free electricity...

  • Roads to Nowhere

    6.Roads to Nowhere

    06-04-201744m

    Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a route used by the French Resistance shut in 2003.