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Season 8 · Episode 6
Landed Mon, 9 Jan 2017 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 8, Episode 6 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Monday, 9 January 2017 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S08E06Blackpool to Manchester VictoriaThere 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.
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