Great British Railway Journeys
Season 5 Episode 3 - Preston to Rochdale
Michael Portillo continues his journey through the North West of England. He celebrates Victorian trade with the Preston Guild then heads to Rochdale where he discovers a pioneering movement that helped improve the lot of working families. Michael follows in the tracks of swathes of nineteenth-century working people who made day trips from the industrial towns to Hebden Bridge to walk in the beautiful Calder Valley.
Episodes in Season 5
Manchester to Birkenhead
30 min
Southport to Leyland
30 min
Preston to Rochdale
30 min
Haworth to Huddersfield
30 min
Honley to Chesterfield
30 min
London Euston to Cheddington
30 min
Bletchley to Newport Pagnell
30 min
Northampton to Nuneaton
30 min
Leicester to Loughborough
30 min
Nottingham to Leeds
30 min
Southampton to Basingstoke
30 min
Winchfield to Crowthorne
30 min
Wokingham to Bradford-on-Avon
30 min
Chippenham to Gloucester
30 min
Cheltenham to Wolverhampton
30 min
Norwich to Brandon
30 min
Ipswich to Chelmsford
30 min
Ilford to Rochester
30 min
Faversham to Dorking
30 min
Brighton to Chichester
30 min