Series 1

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook, travelling the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed Britain

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1/20 Michael learns Scouse in Liverpool and finds out about the first railway fatality.

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