Archive for January, 2010
Great ? Railway Journeys
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Great British Railway Journeys Ep 20/20
Friday 29 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO In the last leg of Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys, he reaches London, as he continues to discover what remains of George Bradshaw’s Britain. In Bradshaw’s time, London was the heart of the Empire. Arriving at St Pancras, Michael finds out about the station’s troubled history and the [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 16/20
Monday 25 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Michael Portillo begins his final railway journey, which takes him from Buxton to London, as he continues to discover what remains of George Bradshaw’s – the man who transformed travel in the UK back in 1840 – Britain. Michael’s first stop in Buxton is to find out how the [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 17/20
Tuesday 26 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Michael Portillo’s first stop on the second leg of his final journey, from Buxton to London, is Cromford. Bradshaw, the man whose railway guides changed the face of travel in the UK, mentions that Arkwright built his first cotton mill here, and Arkwright went on to develop the modern [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 18/20
Wednesday 27 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Michael Portillo’s third leg of his final journey, from Buxton to London, starts in Walsall, the centre of the saddle industry in Bradshaw’s (the man who transformed travel in the UK) time, when the smell of curing leather was thought to cure sickly children. Michael meets Cliff Kirby, whose [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 19/20
Thursday 28 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Michael Portillo’s first stop today on his final journey – from Buxton to London – is Coventry, a place that has changed radically since Victorian times. Bradshaw, the man who transformed travel back in the 1840s with his railway guides, describes a beautiful city, rich in medieval timber buildings. [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 11/20
Monday 18 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Michael Portillo begins his third journey, which takes him along Brunel’s Great Western Railway (GWR) from Swindon to Penzance, as he continues to discover what remains of George Bradshaw’s – the man who transformed travel in the UK – Britain. In Bradshaw’s time, Swindon was the headquarters of the [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 12/20
Tuesday 19 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Michael Portillo continues on his Great British Railway Journeys In the second leg of his third journey in the series, from Swindon to Penzance, Michael Portillo starts in Yatton and visits the Strawberry line – so named because it was once used to transport fresh seasonal strawberries from Cheddar [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 13/20
Wednesday 20 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Michael’s first stop of the day on the third leg of his journey from Swindon to Penzance is Torquay, a resort that was especially recommended by George Bradshaw – the man who transformed travel in Britain – for its warm climate. He meets meteorologist David Braine to find out [...]
Great British Railway Journeys Ep 14/20
Thursday 21 January 6.30-7.00pm BBC TWO Perhaps, as expected, Michael Portillo begins today’s leg of his journey from Swindon to Penzance in a railway carriage, but this one’s not moving. He’s just spent the night in a converted travelling post office railway carriage owned by Lizzie and David Stroud at St Germans. After finding out [...]