Great British Railway Journeys (2010)
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.
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1. Oxford to Abingdon2021-04-26 · 30mMichael Portillo strikes out on another series of railway journeys, starting with a tour of the Home Counties and beyond in the city of dreaming spires, Oxford.
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2. Stoke Mandeville to Beaconsfield2021-04-27 · 30mMichael Portillo continues his travels through England's Home Counties at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, where he discovers the legacy of a German Jewish doctor who fled the
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3. West Ruislip to Windsor2021-04-28 · 30mMichael Portillo heads for leafy Hatch End, where he investigates an illustrator whose work was so popular in the 1920s and 30s that his name entered the English dictionary.
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4. Guildford to Aldershot2021-04-29 · 30mMichael Portillo resumes his tour of the Home Counties in the picturesque and historic county town of Guildford.
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5. Farnborough to Winchester2021-04-30 · 30mMichael is heading for Farnborough, Hampshire, famous today for its airshow and home to what was then the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
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6. Saxmundham to Dedham2021-05-03 · 30mArmed with his 1930s Bradshaw's, Michael Portillo explores interwar East Anglia. Starting at Sutton Hoo, he visits the experimental Summerhill School and learns about the Kindertra
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7. Colchester to Chadwell Heath2021-05-04 · 30mMichael Portillo continues his Bradshaw's-inspired journey through East Anglia, where he discovers the Essex origins of the BBC and joins the Women's Land Army to pick damsons at T
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8. Potters Bar to Cardington2021-05-05 · 30mMichael's Bradshaw travels resume in leafy Hertfordshire, where he attempts a canoe slalom course, visits the estate of Dame Barbara Cartland and hears the shocking story of the R1
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9. Sawbridgeworth to Cambridge2021-05-06 · 30mSteered by his Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo heads for the Hertfordshire village of Perry Green to learn about Henry Moore became one of the defining artists of British modern
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10. Newmarket to Walsingham2021-05-07 · 30mMichael Portillo is in Suffolk on the last leg of his 1930s Bradshaw's inspired tour of East Anglia, visiting the racecourse at Newmarket and the Roman Catholic shrine at Walsingha
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11. Crewe to Shotton2021-05-10 · 30mOh, Mr Porter, what could he do? Michael Portillo is in Crewe, a town steeped in railway history and immortalised in Victorian music hall, to investigate the making of the iconic c
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12. Rhyl to Anglesey2021-05-11 · 30mMichael Portillo's 1930s Bradshaw's-inspired railway tour of North Wales takes him to a coast lined by magnificent castles and sweeping bays.
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13. Bangor to Betws y Coed2021-05-12 · 30mMichael Portillo continues his 1936 Bradshaw's-inspired railway tour of North Wales in the coastal city of Bangor before turning south from Llandudno Junction to travel the Conwy V
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14. Blaenau Ffestiniog to Barmouth2021-05-13 · 30mIn the Welsh mountains of Snowdonia, Michael Portillo reaches an abandoned mine, where in 1940 the wartime government sought sanctuary for the National Gallery’s priceless art coll
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15. Aberystwyth to Newtown2021-05-14 · 30mArmed with his 1930s Bradshaw's Guide, Michael Portillo travels from Aberystwyth into the Cambrian Mountains at Devil's Bridge and finishes in Newtown, Powys. Michael's 250-mile to
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