Jan 07, 2013
Michael travels from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, finding out about the remarkable craftsmen behind the Victorian furniture trade
Jan 07, 2013
Michael travels from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, finding out about the remarkable craftsmen behind the Victorian furniture trade
Jan 08, 2013
Michael learns how the railways helped to make Birmingham the pen-making capital of the world, hears the chilling tale of one of 19th-century Britain's most notorious murderers and samples delicacies concocted in a Victorian kitchen.
Jan 09, 2013
Michael travels from Stoke-on-Trent to Winsford, Cheshire, finding out about one of the greatest locomotive factories in railway history along the way.
Great British Railway Journeys Season 4 (2013) is released on Jan 07, 2013 and the latest season 13 of Great British Railway Journeys is released in 2021. Watch Great British Railway Journeys online - the English Documentary TV series from United Kingdom. Great British Railway Journeys is directed by Cassie Farrell,Marc Beers,Tom Richardson,Titus Ogilvy and created by Adrienne Doyard with Michael Portillo and Nicholas Owen.
Michael Portillo makes various railway journeys across the UK, using a 150-year-old Bradshaw's Guide (a collection of railway timetables and a guidebook). He looks at the history, culture and industry of the towns that he passes through, and the way that things have changed since Bradshaw wrote his Guide.