The Hairy Bikers' Restoration Road Trip

Released: 2013-08-11

Runtime: 60 minutes

Episode Overview

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 a steam winding engine, as his grandfather was a winder. Dave helps to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground by 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.

Series Overview

Swapping spatulas for spanners, the Hairy Bikers restore amazing relics of Britain's past.