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Season 8 · Episode 9
Landed Thu, 12 Jan 2017 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 8, Episode 9 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S08E09Gainsborough to ElySteered by his Bradshaw's railway handbook to Gainsborough, Michael Portillo wraps his head around an ingenious Victorian machine which changed shopping forever. In Lincoln, he discovers the verse and popularity of 19th-century Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and finds poetry thrives today in a city pub. In the Cambridgeshire Fens, Michael recycles rails and ballast at what was once the largest freight marshalling yard in Europe. At Ely, Michael discovers that the city's magnificent cathedral was restored by the Victorian architect George Gilbert Scott.
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Great British Railway Journeys
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