Great British Railway Journeys Season 8 Episode 11 - Wexford to Wicklow

Airdate: 2017-Jan-16

Episode summary:

Armed with his Bradshaw's Handbook, Michael Portillo begins a journey across Ireland. In the port of Wexford, he takes to the seas in a 100-year-old lifeboat and discovers a hero of the American navy. He tunes in to the Meeting of the Waters at the Vale of Avoca, then heads for Wicklow, where he learns of a Victorian project to combat sickness and disease in the capital, Dublin. Embracing the gentler pace of life of a traditional Irish traveller in Victorian times, he ends this leg in a beautiful horse-drawn, barrel-top caravan.

About Great British Railway Journeys series:

Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train.