• 2020
  • 1h
Portillo's Greatest Railway Journeys

Summary Michael Portillo explores how politics, domestic and international, have shaped the railways. View more details

  • 2020
  • 1h

Portillo's Greatest Railway Journeys

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Michael Portillo

All cast & crew

7.7

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 9, 2020

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : The official website of this TV series

Language : English

Production companies : Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)

Summary Michael Portillo explores how politics, domestic and international, have shaped the railways. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 9, 2020

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : The official website of this TV series

Language : English

Production companies : Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)

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Michael Portillo in Portillo's Greatest Railway Journeys (2020)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Political Railways
Michael explores how politics, domestic and international, have shaped the railways. He recalls the political decisions which green lit the great North American transcontinental railways.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and Tourism
Michael Portillo looks at how railways gave birth to modern tourism. The first railway companies were quick to spot a business opportunity, as was George Bradshaw, who quickly published his descriptive guidebooks.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and the Economy
Michael examines how railways have shaped the world economy. He recalls how the first tracks were laid to shift coal and iron ore, using animals or winches, long before locomotives were invented.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and Nationhood
Michael Portillo explores how railways have contributed to the creation of countries, linking people across deserts and mountains and binding together different ethnicities and religions.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and Culture
Michael explores how railways enabled the dissemination of cultural, social, religious and political ideas, and celebrates the cultures which his antique Bradshaw's railway guidebook has introduced him to.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and Imperialism
The invention of railways coincided with the period of European colonisation. A look at how the Europeans used railways to further their imperial ambitions in other parts of the world.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and War
Michael has traveled thousands of miles across five continents, and through two centuries of history aboard some of the world's most spectacular railways. Michael shares his thoughts on the role of railways in war.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and the Industrial Revolution
Michael goes back to the cradle of the railways, Rainhill, a little town not far from Liverpool in the north-west of England, where, in 1829, a competition was held to discover the most improved locomotive engine for the railway.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways, Law and Order
Michael examines notorious crimes on the railways during the times of his Bradshaw's and Appleton's guides. He looks into the history of skulduggery by the owners of North American railroad companies.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Railways and Royalty
Michael examines 180 years of royal fascination with the railways, going all the way back to King George V and Queen Mary's Royal Train Tour in 1913.
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