Great British Railway Journeys · SEASON 8
Blackpool to Manchester Victoria
Episode 6 · 2017-01-09
- Documentary
Episode overview
Blackpool to Manchester Victoria On a new journey across Bradshaw's Britain with his Victorian guidebook. He makes potent new friends in Fleetwood then heads to Manchester, where George Stephenson built the world's first modern railway line. This epoch-defining achievement is being incorporated into a new multi-million pound rail link between Manchester's Victoria and Piccadilly stations and Michael lends a hand with the welding. At a moving ceremony in Manchester Piccadilly station, Michael unveils a new monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway, who lost their lives in the Great War.
30 minutes
Season 8 episodes
1. The Flying Scotsman2017-01-02
2. Welwyn Garden City to Peterborough2017-01-03
3. Newark-on-Trent to Stockton-on-Tees2017-01-04
4. Darlington to Dunbar2017-01-05
5. Longniddry to Edinburgh2017-01-06
6. Blackpool to Manchester Victoria2017-01-09
7. Manchester Piccadilly to Silkstone Common2017-01-10
8. Chapeltown to Doncaster2017-01-11
9. Gainsborough to Ely2017-01-12
10. Stowmarket to Harwich2017-01-13
11. Wexford to Wicklow2017-01-16
12. Greystones to Dublin2017-01-17
13. Navan to Mullingar2017-01-18
14. Dromod to Sligo2017-01-19
15. Ballina to Westport2017-01-20
