Season 8 episodes2017-01-02

Series 8

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

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Episodes

Season 8

Episode 1

The Flying Scotsman

30m

Episode 2

Welwyn Garden City to Peterborough

30m

Episode 3

Newark-on-Trent to Stockton-on-Tees

30m

Episode 4

Darlington to Dunbar

30m

Episode 5

Longniddry to Edinburgh

30m

Series 8

Season 8

The Flying Scotsman

Welwyn Garden City to Peterborough

Newark-on-Trent to Stockton-on-Tees

Darlington to Dunbar

Longniddry to Edinburgh

Blackpool to Manchester Victoria

Manchester Piccadilly to Silkstone Common

Chapeltown to Doncaster

Gainsborough to Ely

Stowmarket to Harwich

Wexford to Wicklow

Greystones to Dublin

Navan to Mullingar

Dromod to Sligo

Ballina to Westport