India's Largest Railway Complex: Howrah Junction | Mega Stations | FD Engineering

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This episode follows life at Howrah Junction, India's busiest rail hub where thousands of staff, including over 200 cleaners, struggle to manage the arrival and departure of 700 trains a day.

With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the World's Busiest Stations, this series buys a unique first-class ticket to the secret life of the station. It follows station staff, train drivers, track maintenance crews and transport police as they battle through human drama, travel disruption and engineering challenges to keep trains on time and passengers on track.

Open 24 hours a day these amazing institutions are places of noise, colour and stunning architecture, but they are also symbols of their country - a window into the culture and history of their city and to the stories of those who live there and pass through.

Revealing the workings of the world's railways as never before, this series captures the daily dramas and challenges from stations around the world.
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