Great British Railway Journeys Series 8 Blackpool to Manchester Victoria 2017
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Blackpool to Manchester Victoria On a new journey across Bradshaw's Britain with his Victorian guidebook. He makes potent new friends in Fleetwood then heads to Manchester, where George Stephenson built the world's first modern railway line. This epoch-defining achievement is being incorporated into a new multi-million pound rail link between Manchester's Victoria and Piccadilly stations and Michael lends a hand with the welding. At a moving ceremony in Manchester Piccadilly station, Michael unveils a new monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway, who lost their lives in the Great War.
- Released: 2017-01-09
- Runtime: 30 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Michael Portillo
- Director: Ben Rowland, John Comerford
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1. The Flying Scotsman 2017-01-02
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2. Welwyn Garden City to Peterborough 2017-01-03
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3. Newark-on-Trent to Stockton-on-Tees 2017-01-04
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4. Darlington to Dunbar 2017-01-05
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5. Longniddry to Edinburgh 2017-01-06
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6. Blackpool to Manchester Victoria 2017-01-09
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8. Chapeltown to Doncaster 2017-01-11
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9. Gainsborough to Ely 2017-01-12
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10. Stowmarket to Harwich 2017-01-13
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11. Wexford to Wicklow 2017-01-16
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12. Greystones to Dublin 2017-01-17
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13. Navan to Mullingar 2017-01-18
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14. Dromod to Sligo 2017-01-19
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15. Ballina to Westport 2017-01-20
