“Yesterday wilderness. Tomorrow civilisation.”
In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
1 season · 8 episodes
S1 E1Episode 1
Jan 7, 201660 min
Annie Quaintain sets off with her children for a new life in Jericho and ends up setting up a boarding house for the labourers. But she is not the only new arrival in town. Handsome navvy Johnny is returning to his native Yorkshire from Af
S1 E2Episode 2
Jan 14, 201660 min
Annie opens the door for Bamford the railway detective, who has returned to Jericho.
S1 E3Episode 3
Jan 21, 201660 min
Annie's world is rocked when Martha falls seriously ill with fever.
S1 E4Episode 4
Jan 28, 201660 min
News of Johnny's true identity spreads throughout the town, leaving him isolated.
S1 E5Episode 5
Feb 4, 201660 min
Charles and Isabella feel the pressure with no hope of outside investment and with their horns still locked with Johnny, money for the viaduct is running out and wages have to be paid. After Charles announces that wages will be delayed, the
S1 E6Episode 6
Feb 11, 201660 min
Charles needs a surveyor to discover the most affordable location to quarry stone for the viaduct. Annie and Johnny learn that the quarry site is where the bodies of Happy Jack and Skinny are buried and they become worried. Everything they
Jessica Raine
Annie Quaintain
Hans Matheson
Johnny Jackson
Clarke Peters
Ralph Coates
Lorraine Ashbourne
Lace Polly
Samuel Bottomley
George Quaintain
Natalie Gavin
Alma Capstick
Amy James-Kelly
Martha Quaintain
Phil Cornwell
Joe Capstick
Sophie Thompson
Lizzie Capstick
Jessica Gunning
Mabel
Dean Andrews
Colin R. Campbell
Albert Bottomley
