Great British Railway Journeys · SEASON 5
Preston to Rochdale
Episode 3 · 2014-01-08
- Documentary
Episode overview
Michael Portillo continues his journey through the North West of England. He celebrates Victorian trade with the Preston Guild then heads to Rochdale where he discovers a pioneering movement that helped improve the lot of working families. Michael follows in the tracks of swathes of nineteenth-century working people who made day trips from the industrial towns to Hebden Bridge to walk in the beautiful Calder Valley.
30 minutes
Season 5 episodes
1. Manchester to Birkenhead2014-01-06
2. Southport to Leyland2014-01-07
3. Preston to Rochdale2014-01-08
4. Haworth to Huddersfield2014-01-09
5. Honley to Chesterfield2014-01-10
6. London Euston to Cheddington2014-01-13
7. Bletchley to Newport Pagnell2014-01-14
8. Northampton to Nuneaton2014-01-15
9. Leicester to Loughborough2014-01-16
10. Nottingham to Leeds2014-01-17
11. Southampton to Basingstoke2014-01-20
12. Winchfield to Crowthorne2014-01-21
13. Wokingham to Bradford-on-Avon2014-01-22
14. Chippenham to Gloucester2014-01-23
15. Cheltenham to Wolverhampton2014-01-24
16. Norwich to Brandon2014-01-27
17. Ipswich to Chelmsford2014-01-28
18. Ilford to Rochester2014-01-29
19. Faversham to Dorking2014-01-30
20. Brighton to Chichester2014-01-31
