Great British Railway Journeys - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes20
DatesJan 4, 2010 - Jan 29, 2010
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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