Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. In a series of five epic journeys, Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.
Michael follows the route of the Great Eastern Line, which ventures from the edge of England, to the centre of the country's financial capital London. He goes in the footsteps of Queen Victoria, following the railways she once rode from her castle in Windsor to the Isle of Portland on the south coast. Then he travels west, from Oxford in the heart of England, through the Malvern Hills and into Wales, with the unique Victorian heritage of the South Welsh coastline. On his fourth journey, Michael goes through some of the North's most dramatic scenery, from Berwick-Upon-Tweed, crossing the Pennines to end on the beautiful and unique Isle of Man. His final journey of the series takes him across the Irish sea, to discover the rich railway history of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, following the unfurling 19th century expansion of the rails from Dublin to Londonderry.
This disc includes the following journeys:
1. Great Yarmouth to Beccles
2. Darsham to Felixstowe
3. Sudbury to Southend
4. Epping to Hackney
5. Fenchurch to Embankment
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following journeys:
6. Windsor to Didcot
7. Reading to Alton
8. Winchester to Isle of Wight
9. Brockenhurst to Poole
10. Wareham to Portland
Disc 3:
This disc includes the following journeys:
11. Oxford to Pershore
12. Hartlebury to Great Malvern
13. Lydney to Newport
14. Cardiff to Brecon
15. Port Talbot to Milford Haven
Disc 4:
This disc includes the following journeys:
16. Berwick-Upon-Tweed to Morpeth
17. Bardon Mill to Wigton
18. Cockermouth to Eskdale
19. Kirkby-in-Furness to Lancaster
20. Heysham to Snaefell
Disc 5:
This disc includes the following journeys:
21. Bray to Dublin
22. Enfield to Drogheda
23. Dundalk to Portadown
24. Belfast to Whitehead
25. Ballymoney to Londonderry
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