Abandoned Engineering: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

As the saying goes – they probably seemed like good ideas at the time. The world is peppered with examples of incredible engineering projects and buildings designed to make life easier for those that used them, amaze those that came to see them, and make money for those that ordered, designed and built them. They were the stuff of dreams. Often enormous engineering problems had to be resolved, obstacles overcome and new innovations employed just to get them built in the first place. Alas, a great number of these remarkable structures have now been abandoned, cast aside like enormous expensive out-of-date toys, never to be used in the ways for which they were intended. Each and every one of these extraordinary places is home to a wealth of powerful and compelling stories. We'll see and hear about some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has eve...

Series details

• Title: Abandoned Engineering
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2017-02-18
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: U&Yesterday
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.1/10
• TVMaze ID: 25651
• IMDb ID: tt6667634
• TVDB ID: 324846

Cast and credited roles

• Tom Ward — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-02-18; final listed air date 2017-04-06; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2018-05-08; final listed air date 2018-06-26; episode order: 8.
• Season 3: premiered 2019-03-26; final listed air date 2019-05-14; episode order: 8.
• Season 4: premiered 2019-06-27; final listed air date 2019-11-28; episode order: 12.
• Season 5: premiered 2020-01-21; final listed air date 2020-03-10; episode order: 8.
• Season 6: premiered 2020-07-09; final listed air date 2020-12-08; episode order: 11.
• Season 7: premiered 2021-01-13; final listed air date 2021-03-31; episode order: 12.
• Season 8: premiered 2021-07-30; final listed air date 2021-10-15; episode order: 12.
• Season 9: premiered 2022-03-21; final listed air date 2022-06-06; episode order: 12.
• Season 10: premiered 2022-09-05; final listed air date 2022-11-21; episode order: 12.
• Season 11: premiered 2023-05-15; final listed air date 2023-07-03; episode order: 8.
• Season 12: premiered 2023-10-23; final listed air date 2023-12-11; episode order: 8.
• Season 13: premiered 2024-06-10; final listed air date 2024-07-29; episode order: 8.
• Season 14: premiered 2025-03-28; final listed air date 2025-05-16; episode order: 8.
• Season 15: premiered 2025-11-26; final listed air date 2026-02-11; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

Adapted from Abandoned Engineering on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.