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Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train.

Genres: Travel
Station: BBC iPlayer (GB)
Rating: 8.5/10 from 2 users
Status: Running
Start: 2010-01-04

Great British Railway Journeys Season 1 Air Dates

Monday
Jan 04, 2010

18:30
S01E01 - Liverpool to Eccles Air Date: Jan 04, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo journeys around Britain by train. He learns to speak Scouse in Liverpool and finds out about the first railway fatality.
Tuesday
Jan 05, 2010

18:30
S01E02 - Manchester to Bury Air Date: Jan 05, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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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.
Wednesday
Jan 06, 2010

18:30
S01E03 - Todmorden to York Air Date: Jan 06, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael travels back in time on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and sees the latest Roman discoveries in York.
Thursday
Jan 07, 2010

18:30
S01E04 - Pontefract to Bridlington Air Date: Jan 07, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael searches for the last liquorice grower in Pontefract and goes fishing for sea bass in Bridlington.
Friday
Jan 08, 2010

18:30
S01E05 - Filey to Scarborough Air Date: Jan 08, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo learns to decipher traditional knitting patterns in Filey and meets Scarborough's 4,000-year-old Gristhorpe Man.
Monday
Jan 11, 2010

18:30
S01E06 - Preston to Morecambe Air Date: Jan 11, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo explores the temperance movement's origins in Preston, visits Blackpool and meets Morecambe Bay's keeper of the sands.
Tuesday
Jan 12, 2010

18:30
S01E07 - Settle to Garsdale Air Date: Jan 12, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo revisits the Settle-Carlisle line, explores the Ribblehead viaduct and learns about the navvies who helped to build it.
Wednesday
Jan 13, 2010

18:30
S01E08 - Windermere to Kendal Air Date: Jan 13, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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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.
Thursday
Jan 14, 2010

18:30
S01E09 - Carlisle to Glasgow Air Date: Jan 14, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo meets the wild Border Reivers clansmen, witnesses a wedding in Gretna Green and visits a World War I munitions factory.
Friday
Jan 15, 2010

18:30
S01E10 - Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy Air Date: Jan 15, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo makes apple juice in the Clyde Valley orchards, scales the Forth Rail Bridge and relives childhood memories in Kirkcaldy.
Monday
Jan 18, 2010

18:30
S01E11 - Swindon to Bristol Air Date: Jan 18, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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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.
Tuesday
Jan 19, 2010

18:30
S01E12 - Yatton to Weston Super Mare Air Date: Jan 19, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael samples Cheddar strawberries, explores Cheddar Gorge and the famous caves, and visits one of the country's oldest piers at Weston-super-Mare.
Wednesday
Jan 20, 2010

18:30
S01E13 - Torquay to Totnes Air Date: Jan 20, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo finds out about Torquay's microclimate, goes salmon fishing on the Dart estuary and spends some of Totnes's new local currency.
Thursday
Jan 21, 2010

18:30
S01E14 - Bugle to Mevagissey Air Date: Jan 21, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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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.
Friday
Jan 22, 2010

18:30
S01E15 - Truro to Penzance Air Date: Jan 22, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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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.
Monday
Jan 25, 2010

18:30
S01E16 - Buxton to Matlock Air Date: Jan 25, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo helps to repair the ancient peat landscape of the Peak District and travels on the historic steam railway to Rowsley.
Tuesday
Jan 26, 2010

18:30
S01E17 - Cromford to Burton-on-Trent Air Date: Jan 26, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo visits the oldest working factory in the world at Cromford and explores the country's first public park in Derby.
Wednesday
Jan 27, 2010

18:30
S01E18 - Walsall to Bournville Air Date: Jan 27, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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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.
Thursday
Jan 28, 2010

18:30
S01E19 - Coventry to Watford Air Date: Jan 28, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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Michael Portillo relives the Coventry Blitz and finds out how the trains helped to evacuate millions of children during World War II.
Friday
Jan 29, 2010

18:30
S01E20 - St Pancras to Westminster Air Date: Jan 29, 2010 18:30 - 15 years ago

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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.

Next Episode of Great British Railway Journeys is

Season 16 / Episode 16 and airs on Apr 28, 2025 05:00

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