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Great British Railway Journeys Series 5
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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MichaeI PortiIIo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian RaiIway Guidebook. ln a series of four epic journeys, PortiIIo travels the Iength and breadth of the country to see how the raiIways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.
This 4 DVD set features 20 episodes covering 4 different journeys:
Manchester to ChesterfieId
London to Leeds
Southampton to Wolverhampton
Norwich to Chichester
On his first journey of this series, MichaeI Portillo goes from Manchester, birthpIace of George Bradshaw the publisher of this trusted guide, to Chesterfield, buriaI pIace of George Stephenson, the father of the railway. For the second journey Michael is guided by his Bradshaw's from London's Euston station to Leeds. He finds out what happened to the once proud Euston Arch and then alights at Cheddington, scene of the Great Train Robbery.
On the third journey of the series, MichaeI begins at Southampton where he learns to set tables aboard the Iuxury Iiner Queen Elizabeth before she sets saiI. He finishes in Wolverhampton where he hears Queen Victoria made an emotionaI visit which signaIled the end of her exile from public Iife after mourning her husband, Prince AIbert. The finaI journey takes Michael from one cathedral city, Norwich and a painfuI encounter with a poIecat, through to another cathedral city, Chichester, from where he heads for a taste of life in the fast Iane at Goodwood. EngIish SubtitIes. |
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