Great British Railway Journeys - Series 4 (2013)

Michael’s first journey follows the track that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the rolling Chiltern Hills, he makes his way through to the stunning Severn Valley and finishes at the Victorian seaside resort of Aberystwyth. He then travels from the centuries old naval hub of Portsmouth to the historic Grimsby docks. On Michael’s third journey, he explores the awe-inspiring scenery of rural and coastal Scotland, from Stirling through the industrial east and ending at “the start of Great Britain”, John O’Groats. The fourth journey of the series, he retraces the footsteps of the master engineer of the Great Western Railway, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, beginning at London Paddington Station through to Newton Abbot in Devon, the scene of one of Brunel’s heroic failures. In the final journey, Great British Railway Journeys goes to Ireland where Michael uses ‘Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Handbook of Great Britain and Ireland’ to explore the Republic of Ireland from Killarney to Galway on the Atlantic Coast.