Great American Railroad Journeys

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  • : 75
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  • BBC Two
  • 20
  • Documentary Mini-series Reality Travel

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4x1
Alaska: Ninilchik to Spencer Whistlestop
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Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States. In Seward, Michael feeds a rescued sea otter pup.
4x2
Alaska: Anchorage to Wasilla
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Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States. In Anchorage, Michael prepares to join the US Arctic Warriors for parachute training.
4x3
Alaska: Talkeetna to Denali
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Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States. Michael travels north to explore the remote former goldrush settlement of Talkeetna.
4x4
Alaska: Fairbanks to Juneau
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Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States. At Fairbanks, Michael discovers how gold prospectors liberated precious metal from the soil.
4x5
Alaska: Skagway to Carcross
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Michael Portillo embarks on a second spectacular rail journey through Alaska to Canada. A dog musher tells Michael how huskies helped to build Alaska.
4x6
Canada: Halifax
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Michael Portillo begins a new journey on the tracks of the ocean line to explore Canada's maritime provinces, en route to Quebec City. Clutching his 1899 Appleton's Guide to Canada, .. show full overview
4x7
Canada: Pictou to Prince Edward Island
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Michael Portillo journeys through Canada's maritime provinces. He heads to the Confederation Theatre in PEI's provincial capital, Charlottetown.
4x8
Canada: Springhill Junction to Moncton
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Michael Portillo travels from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. He appears to defy gravity on Magnetic Hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville.
4x9
Canada: Miramichi to Quebec City
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4x10
Canada: Saint-Anne de Beaupre to La Malbaie
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4x1
Ninilchik to Wasilla
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Armed with his 1899 Appleton's Guidebook to Alaska, Michael Portillo begins his journey amid the snow-capped mountains and ice-cold inlets of the Kenai Peninsula.
4x2
Talkeetna to Juneau
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Michael Portillo explores the remote former goldrush settlement of Talkeetna, where he gets a taste of the pioneering spirit of early 20th-century prospectors and settlers.
4x3
Skagway to Vancouver
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Arriving in Skagway by seaplane from railwayless Juneau, Michael Portillo heads for Dyea and the Chilkoot trail, which the first gold prospectors hiked 100 years ago to the Klondike.
4x4
Vancouver Island to Kamloops
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Michael Portillo explores British Columbia. He discovers how two superpowers nearly came to war over a pig and joins the Royal Canadian Navy to firefight on board the frigate HMCS Regina.
4x5
Kamloops to Calgary
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Michael Portillo boards one of the world's most famous trains, the Rocky Mountaineer, to cross the backbone of the North American continent from Kamloops to the spa resort of Banff.
4x6
Halifax to Prince Edward Island
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Michael Portillo begins a new journey on the tracks of the Ocean line to explore Canada's maritime provinces, en route to Quebec City.
4x7
Springhill Junction to Quebec City
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Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Along the way, he investigates the world’s biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its rock formations and caves.
4x8
Saint-Anne de Beaupre to Winnipeg
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Michael Portillo explores the province of Quebec, taking the fabulously scenic Charlevoix train along the north bank of the mighty St Lawrence River to La Malbaie.
4x9
Portage la Prairie to Saskatoon
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Michael Portillo strikes west across Manitoba into the province of Saskatchewan. Michael discovers how a middle-class British boy transformed himself into an influential indigenous naturalist.
4x10
Edmonton to Jasper
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Following his 1899 Appleton's guide, Michael explores a glossy, glassy, oil-rich Edmonton, second city of Alberta.

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