Portillo's Greatest Railway Journeys

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  • Premiered: Oct 2020
  • Episodes: 10
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Season 1
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Political Railways
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 2020
Michael explores how politics, domestic and international, have shaped the railways. He recalls the political decisions which green lit the great North American transcontinental railways.
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Railways and Tourism
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Air date
Oct 17, 2020
Michael Portillo celebrates over a decade of railway adventures across the world. In this episode, he looks at how railways gave birth to modern tourism.
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Railways and the Economy
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Air date
Oct 24, 2020
Michael examines how railways have shaped the world economy. He recalls how the first tracks were laid to shift coal and iron ore, using animals or winches, long before locomotives were invented.
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Railways and Nationhood
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Air date
Oct 31, 2020
Michael Portillo explores how railways have contributed to the creation of countries, linking people across deserts and mountains and binding together different ethnicities and religions.
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Railways and Culture
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Air date
Nov 07, 2020
Michael explores how railways enabled the dissemination of cultural, social, religious and political ideas.
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Railways and Imperialism
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Air date
Nov 21, 2020
The invention of railways less than 200 years ago coincided with the colonization by Europeans of vast swathes of the world.
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Railways and War
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Air date
Nov 28, 2020
Michael Portillo has travelled thousands of miles across five continents and through two centuries of history aboard some of the world's most exhilarating and spectacular railways.
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Railways and the Industrial Revolution
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Air date
Dec 05, 2020
Michael returns to the cradle of the Railways, Rainhill, a little town not far from Liverpool in the northwest of England, where in 1829,a competition was held to discover the most improved engine.
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Railways, Law and Order
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 12, 2020
Michael looks back at notorious crimes on the railways during the times of his Bradshaw's and Appleton's Guides and delves into the history of skullduggery by the owners of North American railroads.
1x10 Show finale
Railways and Royalty
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Air date
Dec 19, 2020
Michael reflects on 180 years of royal fascination with the railways. He recalls King George V and Queen Mary's Royal Train Tour in 1913 to the calm the militant north of England.

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