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Series 2
Season 2 episodes2011-01-03

Series 2

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 2

Episode 1

Brighton to Crystal Palace

30m

Episode 2

Waterloo to Canary Wharf

30m

Episode 3

Enfield to Cambridge

30m

Episode 4

Ely to King's Lynn

30m

Episode 5

Dereham to Cromer

30m

Episode 6

Ledbury to Shrewsbury

30m

Episode 7

Telford to Wrexham

30m

Episode 8

Chester to Conwy

30m

Episode 9

Llanwst to Porthmadog

30m

Episode 10

Llanberis to Holyhead

30m

Episode 11

Newcastle to Chester-le-Street

30m

Episode 12

Durham to Grosmont

30m

Episode 13

York to Saltaire

30m

Episode 14

Batley to Sheffield

30m

Episode 15

Langley Mill to Melton Mowbray

30m

Episode 16

London Bridge to Chatham

30m

Episode 17

Aylesford to Tunbridge Wells

30m

Episode 18

Canterbury to Margate

30m

Episode 19

Sandwich to Folkestone

30m

Episode 20

Hythe to Hastings

30m

Episode 21

Ayr to Paisley

30m

Episode 22

Dumbarton to Tyndrum

30m

Episode 23

Oban to Corrour

30m

Episode 24

Roybridge to Glenfinnan

30m

Episode 25

Lochailort to Skye

30m