Titanic interior recreated for TV

The luxurious surroundings enjoyed by some of the passengers on board the doomed Titanic can be seen for the first time in almost 100 years after a team of experts recreated parts of the ship.

Engineers teamed up with craftsmen around the country to take part in the project which forms the basis of a five-part Channel 4 programme called Titanic: The Mission, which starts tonight.

They recreated a section of the first class smoking room despite there being no photographs showing what it looked like.

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Instead they had to rely on black and white pictures of the same room on board the Titanic's sister ship the Olympic and a floor tile retrieved from the wreck of the ship that revealed the bright red and blue colour scheme.

More than 1,000 people died when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912 .

Titanic: The Mission starts on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight.