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Great British Railway Journeys Series 5
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. In a series of four epic journeys, Portillo traveIs the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways 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 WoIverhampton
Norwich to Chichester
On his first journey of this series, Michael PortiIIo goes from Manchester, birthpIace of George Bradshaw the publisher of this trusted guide, to ChesterfieId, burial pIace of George Stephenson, the father of the railway. For the second journey MichaeI 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 aIights at Cheddington, scene of the Great Train Robbery.
On the third journey of the series, MichaeI begins at Southampton where he Iearns to set tabIes aboard the luxury Iiner Queen Elizabeth before she sets sail. He finishes in Wolverhampton where he hears Queen Victoria made an emotional visit which signaIIed the end of her exile from public Iife after mourning her husband, Prince AIbert. The finaI journey takes Michael from one cathedraI city, Norwich and a painfuI encounter with a polecat, through to another cathedraI city, Chichester, from where he heads for a taste of Iife in the fast lane at Goodwood. EngIish Subtitles. |
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