Great British Railway Journeys Season 8 Episode 6 - Blackpool to Manchester Victoria

Airdate: 2017-Jan-09

Episode summary:

There is terror on the tracks in Blackpool as Michael Portillo embarks on a new journey across Bradshaw's Britain with his Victorian guidebook. He makes potent new friends in Fleetwood then heads to Manchester, where George Stephenson built the world's first modern railway line. This epoch-defining achievement is being incorporated into a new multi-million pound rail link between Manchester's Victoria and Piccadilly stations and Michael lends a hand with the welding. At a moving ceremony in Manchester Piccadilly station, Michael unveils a new monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway, who lost their lives in the Great War.

About Great British Railway Journeys series:

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