Season 5 episodes2014-01-06

Series 5

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 5

Episode 1

Manchester to Birkenhead

30m

Episode 2

Southport to Leyland

30m

Episode 3

Preston to Rochdale

30m

Episode 4

Haworth to Huddersfield

30m

Episode 5

Honley to Chesterfield

30m

Series 5

Season 5

Manchester to Birkenhead

Southport to Leyland

Preston to Rochdale

Haworth to Huddersfield

Honley to Chesterfield

London Euston to Cheddington

Bletchley to Newport Pagnell

Northampton to Nuneaton

Leicester to Loughborough

Nottingham to Leeds

Southampton to Basingstoke

Winchfield to Crowthorne

Wokingham to Bradford-on-Avon

Chippenham to Gloucester

Cheltenham to Wolverhampton

Norwich to Brandon

Ipswich to Chelmsford

Ilford to Rochester

Faversham to Dorking

Brighton to Chichester