Michael Portillo celebrates over a decade of railway adventures across the world. In this episode, he looks at how railways gave birth to modern tourism. The first railway companies were quick to spot ...
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Michael Portillo to present special programme set in North East to mark 200th anniversary of railways
Michael Portillo will host a special programme set in the North East to celebrate the 200th anniversary of British Railways. The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway on September 27, 1825, ...
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian railway guidebook, he travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see what of Bradshaw's World remains. Michael is ...
IT was on April 11, 1989 that the news that the scenic Settle-Carlisle railway line had been saved from closure was broken by the then ...
In 1825, a British engineer named George Stephenson designed a machine – the Locomotion No 1 – capable of using a steam engine to move itself along tracks. As Michael Portillo explains tonight, it was ...
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