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. Preston to Rawtenstall2023-06-19 · 28mMichael Portillo strikes out to explore the Britain of his youth, starting at Preston’s Fulwood Barracks and heading across to Bury Bolton Street station in Greater Manchester.
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2. Urmston to New Islington2023-06-20 · 29mMichael’s journey through north west England from Preston to Hebden Bridge reaches Greater Manchester, where Michael celebrates new beginnings for the nation in the years after the
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3. Oldham to Wakefield2023-06-21 · 28mGreater Manchester’s Metrolink tram delivers Michael to the former cotton town of Oldham. He heads across to Wakefield and the striking postwar sculptures of Barbara Hepworth.
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4. Wakefield to Leeds2023-06-22 · 28mFrom Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Michael visits the National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery. He pauses to admire the tall spire of Wakefield Cathedral and its r
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5. Bradford to Hebden Bridge2023-06-24 · 28mMichael Portillo continues his postwar exploration of north west England in Bradford, Shipley and Hebden Bridge. In Centenary Square in Bradford, Michael encounters Bradford’s lite
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6. Tilbury to Barbican2023-06-26 · 28mMichael Portillo travels through the Britain of his youth from London’s Docklands and East End to the ‘city within a city’, the Barbican.
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7. Waterloo to Regent's Park2023-06-27 · 29mMichael Portillo continues his railway exploration of the post-war Britain of his youth on a journey from London to Cambridge, starting at South Bank.
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8. Paddington to Ongar2023-06-28 · 29mMichael Portillo ventures deep underground onto London’s newest railway: the Elizabeth Line. He travels across London before transferring to the Epping Ongar Heritage Railway.
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9. Felixstowe to Norwich2023-06-29 · 29mMichael Portillo continues his rail exploration of the east of England, starting on the seafront of Felixstowe and finishing in the plate glass campus of the University of East Ang
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10. Brandon to Cambridge2023-06-30 · 29mMichael Portillo completes his railway journey through the east of England during the post-war period, heading from RAF Lakenheath to the city of Cambridge.
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11. Derby to Hinckley2023-07-17 · 28mMichael Portillo explores the postwar Britain of his youth on a railway journey from the Midlands to the West Country, beginning in the city of Derby.
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12. Coventry to Leamington Spa2023-07-18 · 28mIn Coventry, Michael recalls the destruction by the Luftwaffe of the city’s Gothic cathedral in November 1940, before heading to Leamington Spa to visit the Guide Dogs for the Blin
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13. Long Itchington to Moseley2023-07-19 · 28mMichael Portillo’s railway journey reaches the heart of the Warwickshire countryside, where work is underway the biggest project of new railway infrastructure in Britain for a hund
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14. Wolverhampton to Cheltenham2023-07-20 · 28mAt the African and Caribbean Heritage Centre in Wolverhampton, Michael finds out about the impact of Enoch Powell's 1968 speech on immigration in Wolverhampton and across the natio
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15. Tewkesbury to Filton2023-07-21 · 28mMichael visits the fairy-tale castle of Eastnor at the foot of the Malvern Hills, before heading to the Severn Estuary and Filton, the centre of Britain's postwar aviation industry
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