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Season 8 · Episode 8
Landed Wed, 11 Jan 2017 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 8, Episode 8 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S08E08Chapeltown to DoncasterFrom Chapeltown, Michael heads to Wharncliffe Crags, where he plucks up courage to follow in the terrifying footholds of the Victorian daredevil who made rock climbing a sport. The relative calm of academia beckons at Sheffield University but, face to face with a hagfish, Michael's visit to the Alfred Denny Collection proves an eye-opener. At Conisbrough, Michael learns how Victorians flocked to visit the castle which inspired Sir Walter Scott's immensely popular novel, Ivanhoe. This leg of his journey, following what was once known as the North Country Continental service, finishes in the engineering centre of Doncaster, where Bradshaw's leads him to investigate an enlightened Victorian's school for deaf children.
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