Great British Railway Journeys

  • Premiered: Jan 2010
  • Episodes: 285
  • Followers: 9
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Monday at 18
  • Documentary Travel

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Season 12
12x1
Oxford to Abingdon
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Air date
Apr 26, 2021
Michael 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.
12x2
Stoke Mandeville to Beaconsfield
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Apr 27, 2021
Michael 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 Nazis.
12x3
West Ruislip to Windsor
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Apr 28, 2021
Michael 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.
12x4
Guildford to Aldershot
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Apr 29, 2021
Michael Portillo resumes his tour of the Home Counties in the picturesque and historic county town of Guildford.
12x5
Farnborough to Winchester
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Apr 30, 2021
Michael is heading for Farnborough, Hampshire, famous today for its airshow and home to what was then the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
12x6
Saxmundham to Dedham
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May 03, 2021
Armed 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 Kindertransport refugees.
12x7
Colchester to Chadwell Heath
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May 04, 2021
Michael 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 Tiptree.
12x8
Potters Bar to Cardington
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May 05, 2021
Michael'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 R101 airship.
12x9
Sawbridgeworth to Cambridge
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May 06, 2021
Steered 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 modernism.
12x10
Newmarket to Walsingham
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May 07, 2021
Michael 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 Walsingham.
12x11
Crewe to Shotton
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May 10, 2021
Oh, 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 cinema classic, The Night Mail during the 1930s.
12x12
Rhyl to Anglesey
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May 11, 2021
Michael Portillo's 1930s Bradshaw's-inspired railway tour of North Wales takes him to a coast lined by magnificent castles and sweeping bays.
12x13
Bangor to Betws y Coed
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May 12, 2021
Michael 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 Valley Line to Betws y Coed, the gateway to Snowdonia.
12x14
Blaenau Ffestiniog to Barmouth
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May 13, 2021
In 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 collection.
12x15 Season finale
Aberystwyth to Newtown
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May 14, 2021
Armed 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 tour .. show full overview

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