Great British Railway Journeys
Season 8 Episode 7 - Manchester Piccadilly to Silkstone Common
7.4 ?
2010
Documentary
Manchester Piccadilly to Silkstone Common Michael Portillo's journey from the Irish Sea to the North Sea continues by tram from Manchester. At the imposing town hall of the world's first industrial city, Michael comes face to face with the Victorian scientist who invented modern atomic theory. He then heads to the city's National Graphene Institute, where he learns to make the groundbreaking material invented there by two Nobel prize-winning scientists. His Bradshaw's leads him to an 18th-century settlement built by refugees from Europe.
Episodes in Season 8
1
The Flying Scotsman
30 min
2
Welwyn Garden City to Peterborough
30 min
3
Newark-on-Trent to Stockton-on-Tees
30 min
4
Darlington to Dunbar
30 min
5
Longniddry to Edinburgh
30 min
6
Blackpool to Manchester Victoria
30 min
7
Manchester Piccadilly to Silkstone Common
30 min
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8
Chapeltown to Doncaster
30 min
9
Gainsborough to Ely
30 min
10
Stowmarket to Harwich
30 min
11
Wexford to Wicklow
30 min
12
Greystones to Dublin
30 min
13
Navan to Mullingar
30 min
14
Dromod to Sligo
30 min
15
Ballina to Westport
30 min
