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Season 8 · Episode 11
Landed Mon, 16 Jan 2017 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 8, Episode 11 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Monday, 16 January 2017 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S08E11Wexford to WicklowArmed with his Bradshaw's Handbook, Michael Portillo begins a journey across Ireland. In the port of Wexford, he takes to the seas in a 100-year-old lifeboat and discovers a hero of the American navy. He tunes in to the Meeting of the Waters at the Vale of Avoca, then heads for Wicklow, where he learns of a Victorian project to combat sickness and disease in the capital, Dublin. Embracing the gentler pace of life of a traditional Irish traveller in Victorian times, he ends this leg in a beautiful horse-drawn, barrel-top caravan.
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