Enfield to Cambridge

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Duration: 30 minutes

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. In a series of five epic journeys, Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

On a journey taking him coast to coast from Brighton to Cromer, Michael visits the government arms factory at Enfield (the largest machine shop in Europe in Bradshaw's day), discovers how the trains transformed Newmarket's races and finds out why Cambridge could be considered the birthplace of modern football.

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Credits

Series Producer
Fiona Caldwell
Presenter
Michael Portillo
Executive Producer
Charlie Bunce

Broadcasts

See all broadcasts of Enfield to Cambridge (12)

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