TV watch: Sorry, Ian …

Yesterday’s Trains that Changed the World was about underground trains and much better than the first programme. A lot of my irritation with the first effort was that I didn’t learn anything I didn’t already know and kept thinking of interesting points they could have made but didn’t. Yesterday, I was charmed to learn that the patron saint of tunnellers (a very superstitious lot, apparently), is St Barbara. Unlike the Victorian navvies, the men building Crossrail use state of the art equipment, yet they have statues of St Barbara about. I’m all for saints and find this quite delightful.