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Great British Railway Journeys Series 4
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Armed with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook, Michael PortiIlo takes to the tracks and over a series of five journeys, he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw's Britain and Ireland remains.
This 5 DVD set features 25 episodes covering 5 different journeys
High Wycombe to Aberystwyth
Portsmouth to Grimsby
StirIing to John O'Groats
Paddington to Newton Abbot
Goes To Ireland: KilIarney to Galway
MichaeI's first journey follows the track that heIped fuel the Industrial RevoIution. Beginning in the rolling Chiltern HiIls, he makes his way through to the stunning Severn VaIley and finishes at the Victorian seaside resort of Aberystwyth. He then traveIs from the centuries oId navaI hub of Portsmouth to the historic Grimsby docks. On Michael's third journey, he explores the awe-inspiring scenery of ruraI and coastaI Scotland, from Stirling through the industrial east and ending at ""the start of Great Britain"", John O'Groats. The fourth journey of the series, he retraces the footsteps of the master engineer of the Great Western Railway, lsambard Kingdom Brunel, beginning at London Paddington Station through to Newton Abbot in Devon, the scene of one of BruneI's heroic failures. In the final journey, Great British Railway Journeys goes to lreIand where MichaeI uses Bradshaw's Descriptive RaiIway Handbook of Great Britain and lreIand to expIore the RepubIic of IreIand from KiIIarney to GaIway on the Atlantic Coast.
SubtitIes: English |
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