Great British Railway Journeys

8:10 AM to 8:35 AM
Monday 28 April
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Liverpool to Eccles

Season 1 Episode 1 of 20

Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook to discover how the railways have affected people and find out what remains of Bradshaw's Britain. He begins in Liverpool by learning to speak Scouse, before researching the first railway fatality and exploring the origins of the Eccles cake

Great British Railway Journeys airs on U&Yesterday +1 at 8:10 AM, Monday 28 April. (Subtitles.)
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Michael Portillo
Presenter
Fiona Caldwell
Series Producer
Charlie Bunce
Executive Producer