Great British Railway Journeys
Great British Railway Journeys
Season released 26th Apr, 2021Rated PG15 episodes
Where to watch Great British Railway Journeys Season 12
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Great British Railway Journeys Season 12 episodes
S12 E01
Oxford to Abingdon
28 mins · Mon, 26 Apr 2021
Michael Portillo starts in the city of dreaming spires, Oxford, where in 1921, women were awarded degrees for the first time.
S12 E02
Stoke Mandeville to Beaconsfield
29 mins · Tue, 27 Apr 2021
Michael Portillo continues his travels through England's Home Counties at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, where he discovers the legacy of a German Jewish doctor who fled the Nazis to settle in Britain.
S12 E03
West Ruislip to Windsor
28 mins · Wed, 28 Apr 2021
Michael Portillo heads for leafy Hatch End, where he investigates an illustrator whose work was so popular in the 1920s and '30s that his name entered the English dictionary.
S12 E04
Guildford to Aldershot
29 mins · Thu, 29 Apr 2021
Michael Portillo resumes his tour of the home counties in the picturesque and historic county town of Guildford. His 1936 Bradshaw's guide commends its "fine old castle keep" and guildhall, but makes no mention of its hilltop cathedral.
S12 E05
Farnborough to Winchester
29 mins · Fri, 30 Apr 2021
Michael heads for Farnborough, Hampshire, famous for its airshow and home to what was once the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Richard Gardner of the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust tells Michael about the boffins who worked here.
S12 E06
Saxmundham to Dedham
29 mins · Mon, 3 May 2021
Armed with his 1930s Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo explores East Anglia between the wars. His railway journey begins at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, where archaeologists made a staggering discovery.
S12 E07
Colchester to Chadwell Heath
29 mins · Tue, 4 May 2021
Michael Portillo continues his Bradshaw's-inspired journey through East Anglia, where he discovers the Essex origins of the BBC, joins the Women's Land Army to pick damsons at Tiptree, and visits homes fit for heroes in Becontree.
S12 E08
Potters Bar to Cardington
29 mins · Wed, 5 May 2021
Michael Portillo's Bradshaw travels resume in leafy Hertfordshire, where he attempts a canoe slalom course at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, built for the London Olympics in 2012.
S12 E09
Sawbridgeworth to Cambridge
29 mins · Thu, 6 May 2021
Steered by his Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo heads for the Hertfordshire village of Perry Green, where, in 1940, a young couple fleeing the bombing of London chose to make their home.
S12 E10
Newmarket to Walsingham
29 mins · Fri, 7 May 2021
Michael Portillo is in Suffolk on the last leg of his tour of East Anglia. He begins at the home of British horseracing, Newmarket, where he learns of the interwar success of a jockey turned trainer and helps to care for a famous ex-racehorse.
S12 E11
Crewe to Shotton
29 mins · Mon, 10 May 2021
Michael Portillo is in Crewe, a town steeped in railway history and immortalised in Victorian music hall, to investigate the making of the iconic cinema classic The Night Mail during the 1930s.
S12 E12
Rhyl to Anglesey
29 mins · Tue, 11 May 2021
Michael Portillo's 1930s Bradshaw's inspired railway tour of north Wales takes him to a coast lined by magnificent castles and sweeping bays. In Colwyn Bay, he hears how an army of civil servants invaded the quiet seaside town.
S12 E13
Bangor to Betws y Coed
28 mins · Wed, 12 May 2021
Michael Portillo continues his 1936 Bradshaw's inspired railway tour of north Wales in the coastal city of Bangor before turning south from Llandudno Junction to travel the Conwy Valley line to Betws y Coed, the gateway to Snowdonia.
S12 E14
Blaenau Ffestiniog to Barmouth
29 mins · Thu, 13 May 2021
In the Welsh mountains of Snowdonia, Michael Portillo reaches an abandoned mine, where in 1940 the wartime government sought sanctuary for the National Gallery's priceless art collection.
S12 E15
Aberystwyth to Newtown
29 mins · Fri, 14 May 2021
Michael travels from Aberystwyth into the Cambrian Mountains at Devil's Bridge and finishes in Newtown, Powys.