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Armed with his copy of Bradshaw’s Victorian Railway Guidebook, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks and over a series of four journeys, he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw’s Britain remains. All 25 episodes from the third series of the documentary in which Michael Portillo traces historic rail journeys across Britain, taking as his guide ‘Bradshaw’s Handbook’.

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Armed with his copy of Bradshaw’s Victorian Railway Guidebook, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks and over a series of four journeys, he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw’s Britain remains.

This 5 disc-set DVD set features all 25 episodes from the third series of the documentary in which Michael Portillo traces historic rail journeys across Britain, taking as his guide ‘Bradshaw’s Handbook’. The episodes are: ‘Great Yarmouth to Beccles’, ‘Darsham to Felixstowe’, ‘Sudbury to Southend’, ‘Epping to Hackney’, ‘Fenchurch to Embankment’, ‘Windsor to Didcot’, ‘Reading to Alton’, ‘Winchester to Isle of Wight’, ‘Brockenhurst to Poole’, ‘Wareham to Portland’, ‘Oxford to Pershore’, ‘Hartlebury to Great Malvern’, ‘Lydney to Newport’, ‘Cardiff to Brecon’, ‘Port Talbot to Milford Haven’, ‘Berwick-Upon-Tweed to Morpeth’, ‘Bardon Mill to Wigton’, ‘Cockermouth to Eskdale’, ‘Kirkby-in-Furness to Lancaster’, ‘Heysham to Snaefell’, ‘Bray to Dublin’, ‘Enfield to Drogheda’, ‘Dundalk to Portadown’, ‘Belfast to Whitehead’ and ‘Ballymoney to Derry’.

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