Great British Railway Journeys
Season 5 Episode 6 - London Euston to Cheddington
On the last leg of his journey from a notorious slum in Manchester to the grandeur of a ducal seat in Derbyshire, Michael Portillo tunes in to the music of the mills and collieries of Victorian England, testing his puff with the brass band at Honley. In Holmfirth, Michael finds out about a nineteenth-century tragedy that struck the town and led to a tourist boom on the railways. At Chesterfield, Michael pays homage to the father of the railway, George Stephenson, before finishing his journey in style at one of the first stately homes to welcome visitors by rail - Chatsworth.
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
