Great British Railway Journeys
Season 8 Episode 9 - Gainsborough to Ely
Gainsborough to Ely Steered by his Bradshaw's railway handbook to Gainsborough, Michael Portillo wraps his head around an ingenious Victorian machine which changed shopping forever. In Lincoln, he discovers the verse and popularity of 19th-century Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and finds poetry thrives today in a city pub.
Episodes in Season 8
The Flying Scotsman
30 min
Welwyn Garden City to Peterborough
30 min
Newark-on-Trent to Stockton-on-Tees
30 min
Darlington to Dunbar
30 min
Longniddry to Edinburgh
30 min
Blackpool to Manchester Victoria
30 min
Manchester Piccadilly to Silkstone Common
30 min
Chapeltown to Doncaster
30 min
Gainsborough to Ely
30 min
Stowmarket to Harwich
30 min
Wexford to Wicklow
30 min
Greystones to Dublin
30 min
Navan to Mullingar
30 min
Dromod to Sligo
30 min
Ballina to Westport
30 min