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Abandoned Engineering: Series 1

6 episodes Premiered Feb 18, 2017 Updated Jul 21, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Silent Cities

Feb 18, 2017 · 44 min

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

S1·E2

Mission: Space

Feb 25, 2017 · 44 min

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

S1·E3

Lost Bridges

Mar 21, 2017 · 44 min

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

S1·E4

Ghost Ships

Mar 28, 2017 · 44 min

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.

S1·E5

Quest for Power

Apr 4, 2017 · 44 min

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

S1·E6

Roads to Nowhere

Apr 6, 2017 · 44 min

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.