Great British Railway Journeys - Season 1

Great British Railway Journeys - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes20
DatesJan 4, 2010 - Jan 29, 2010
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Episodes

Liverpool to Eccles
Season 1Episode 130 min

Liverpool to Eccles

Michael Portillo journeys around Britain by train. He learns to speak Scouse in Liverpool and finds out about the first railway fatality.
Jan 4, 2010
Manchester to Bury
Season 1Episode 230 min

Manchester to Bury

Michael Portillo travels around Britain by train. He is fitted for a trilby in Denton and discovers the role the railways had in the creation of fish and chips.
Jan 5, 2010
Todmorden to York
Season 1Episode 330 min

Todmorden to York

Michael travels back in time on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and sees the latest Roman discoveries in York.
Jan 6, 2010
Pontefract to Bridlington
Season 1Episode 430 min

Pontefract to Bridlington

Michael searches for the last liquorice grower in Pontefract and goes fishing for sea bass in Bridlington.
Jan 7, 2010
Filey to Scarborough
Season 1Episode 530 min

Filey to Scarborough

Michael Portillo learns to decipher traditional knitting patterns in Filey and meets Scarborough's 4,000-year-old Gristhorpe Man.
Jan 8, 2010
Preston to Morecambe
Season 1Episode 630 min

Preston to Morecambe

Michael Portillo explores the temperance movement's origins in Preston, visits Blackpool and meets Morecambe Bay's keeper of the sands.
Jan 11, 2010
Settle to Garsdale
Season 1Episode 730 min

Settle to Garsdale

Michael Portillo revisits the Settle-Carlisle line, explores the Ribblehead viaduct and learns about the navvies who helped to build it.
Jan 12, 2010
Windermere to Kendal
Season 1Episode 830 min

Windermere to Kendal

Michael Portillo takes a steamboat tour of Lake Windermere, visits Wordsworth's home village of Grasmere and makes sausages with a local Herdwick sheep farmer.
Jan 13, 2010
Carlisle to Glasgow
Season 1Episode 930 min

Carlisle to Glasgow

Michael Portillo meets the wild Border Reivers clansmen, witnesses a wedding in Gretna Green and visits a World War I munitions factory.
Jan 14, 2010
Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy

Michael Portillo makes apple juice in the Clyde Valley orchards, scales the Forth Rail Bridge and relives childhood memories in Kirkcaldy.
Jan 15, 2010
Swindon to Bristol
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Swindon to Bristol

Michael Portillo finds out about free holiday trains for the GWR workers in Swindon, samples the spa in Bath and tries his hand at glass blowing in Bristol.
Jan 18, 2010
Yatton to Weston Super Mare
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Yatton to Weston Super Mare

Michael samples Cheddar strawberries, explores Cheddar Gorge and the famous caves, and visits one of the country's oldest piers at Weston-super-Mare.
Jan 19, 2010
Torquay to Totnes
Season 1Episode 1330 min

Torquay to Totnes

Michael Portillo finds out about Torquay's microclimate, goes salmon fishing on the Dart estuary and spends some of Totnes's new local currency.
Jan 20, 2010
Bugle to Mevagissey
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Bugle to Mevagissey

Michael Portillo visits the largest clay mine in the world, goes pilchard fishing in Mevagissey and finds out how the estate of Heligan shaped British gardens.
Jan 21, 2010
Truro to Penzance
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Truro to Penzance

Michael Portillo searches for the lost church of St Piran, explores the last working tin mine in Cornwall and harvests oysters on the Helford River.
Jan 22, 2010
Buxton to Matlock
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Buxton to Matlock

Michael Portillo helps to repair the ancient peat landscape of the Peak District and travels on the historic steam railway to Rowsley.
Jan 25, 2010
Cromford to Burton-on-Trent
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Cromford to Burton-on-Trent

Michael Portillo visits the oldest working factory in the world at Cromford and explores the country's first public park in Derby.
Jan 26, 2010
Walsall to Bournville
Season 1Episode 1830 min

Walsall to Bournville

Series in which Michael Portillo travels the country by train. He meets the Queen's saddler in Walsall and learns how to cook an Indian curry in Birmingham.
Jan 27, 2010
Coventry to Watford
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Coventry to Watford

Michael Portillo relives the Coventry Blitz and finds out how the trains helped to evacuate millions of children during World War II.
Jan 28, 2010
St Pancras to Westminster
Season 1Episode 2030 min

St Pancras to Westminster

Michael visits one of the grandest railway stations and hotels in the country - St Pancras. He also rides the world's first tube line to Smithfield market.
Jan 29, 2010

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