7.4/107 votes#1 - Warrington to Preston
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/2019
Warrington to Preston Armed with his Bradshaw’s Guide, Michael Portillo embarks on a new journey through Britain’s industrial heartland. Starting at Warrington, Michael then heads to Huyton and Preston.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Blackburn to Manchester
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 2/5/2019
Blackburn to Manchester Michael Portillo continues his journey through Britain’s industrial northwest, visiting Blackburn, Nelson and the renovated 19th-century Manchester Victoria station.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Manchester to Elsecar
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2019
Manchester to Elsecar Armed with Bradshaw’s Guide, Michael Portillo continues his journey through Britain's industrial heartlands, leaving Manchester for Oldham, Edale and a private family railway line.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Maltby to Hinckley
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2019
Maltby to Hinckley Armed with his Bradshaw’s Guide, Michael Portillo continues his tour of Britain’s industrial heartlands, heading for Maltby, Derby and on to Hinckley.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Birmingham to the Potteries
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/2019
Birmingham to the Potteries Armed with his Bradshaw’s guide, Michael Portillo visits Birmingham, then travels on to Cradley Heath and Landywood, before reaching the Potteries at Stoke-on-Trent.
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#6 - Newry to Portadown
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2019
Newry to Portadown Beginning in Newry, Michael Portillo finds a specially chartered train that would deliver demonstrators campaigning for Irish Home Rule to a rally in the town.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Belfast to Portrush
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2019
Belfast to Portrush Michael Portillo continues his rail journey through Northern Ireland. In Belfast’s grand Edwardian City Hall, Michael investigates the scene of a watershed moment in Irish history.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - Larne to Dumfries
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 2/13/2019
Larne to Dumfries Leaving from the seaport of Larne, Michael Portillo reaches Stranraer and the Mull of Galloway, where in a lighthouse built by Robert Stevenson, he discovers a magnificent machine.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Glasgow to Cumbrae
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 2/14/2019
Glasgow to Cumbrae Michael Portillo explores the industrial heartland of Glasgow and its mighty River Clyde before taking the ferry to the island of Cumbrae. With his early 20th-century Bradshaw's guide in hand, he is put to work behind the scenes at Glasgow's circular subway, explores the future of shipbuilding on the Clyde and hears how one woman led a successful mass protest against high rents in the city's notorious tenements. On the island of Cumbrae, Michael investigates a forgotten Scottish expedition to the Antarctic and discovers the beauties of intertidal marine life.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Glasgow to Connel Ferry
Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 2/15/2019
Michael Portillo falls into line with the University of Glasgow’s Officer Training Corps. Founded in the early 20th century, the Corps flourishes today and Michaels joins students for drill. From Glasgow, Michael heads west along the Firth of Clyde to Helensburgh, where he discovers a pioneering group of artists known as the Glasgow Boys. The idyllic West Highland Line takes Michael deep into the Highlands to Inveraray and the ancestral home of the Clan Campbell and the Dukes of Argyll. Here, he discovers an unconventional royal marriage between Queen Victoria’s spirited daughter, Princess Louise, and a commoner, the Marquess of Lorne, later the 9th Duke of Argyll. Michael’s final stop is Connel Ferry, near Oban, where, on the Achnacloich Estate, he discovers Lily, a pedigree Highland calf. Michael learns how Lily’s herd has been owned continuously by the Nelson family since 1901 and hears how the breed has become an icon of the Highlands.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Warwick to Radley
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 2/18/2019
Warwick to Radley In Warwick’s medieval castle, Michael Portillo uncovers the scene of an extravagant and scandalous ball, which changed the life of its hostess, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick.
Director: Cassie Farrell
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Reading to Cookham
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 2/19/2019
Reading to Cookham Messing about in boats is the name of the game in Henley on Thames, where Michael Portillo slips into a launch to hear about the world-famous regatta.
Director: Cassie Farrell
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Ealing Broadway to South Kensington
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/2019
Ealing Broadway to South Kensington In the Queen of the Suburbs, Ealing, Michael Portillo finds comedy at the home of British cinema and is transformed for the silver screen by expert hair and make-up.
Director: Cassie Farrell
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Piccadilly Circus to Gravesend
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 2/21/2019
Piccadilly Circus to Gravesend At Covent Garden’s Royal Ballet School, Michael Portillo hears how in 1909 a Russian ballet company took London by storm.
Director: Cassie Farrell
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NaN/100 votes#15 - East Malling to Rye
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/2019
East Malling to Rye In Folkestone, Michael Portillo hears how the town coped with an influx of more than 100,000 refugees from Belgium fleeing the German invasion in 1914.
Director: Cassie Farrell
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The Best Episodes of Great British Railway Journeys Season 10
Every episode of Great British Railway Journeys Season 10 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Great British Railway Journeys Season 10!
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Season 10 Ratings Summary
"Warrington to Preston" is the best rated episode of "Great British Railway Journeys" season 10. It scored 7.4/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/4/2019. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Blackburn to Manchester".