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The Worst Episodes of Great Continental Railway Journeys

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The Worst Episodes of Great Continental Railway Journeys

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

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  1. Background image for Aarhus to Odense
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    #1 - Aarhus to Odense

    S8:E9

    Michael Portillo’s Scandinavian rail adventure reaches Denmark’s second city, Aarhus, an architectural playground with dazzling contemporary buildings set alongside historic half-timbered houses.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Roskilde to Copenhagen
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    #2 - Roskilde to Copenhagen

    S8:E10

    Michael Portillo concludes his epic rail journey across Norway and Denmark, crossing an 18-kilometre box girder bridge between the islands of Funen and Zealand, known as the Great Belt Bridge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Maienfeld to the Rhine Gorge
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    #3 - Maienfeld to the Rhine Gorge

    S8:E11

    Michael Portillo is transported 150 years back in time to the tiny Alpine village home of Switzerland’s most famous child, Heidi, and heads to the Rhine Gorge, also known as the Swiss Grand Canyon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Sedrun to Schwyz
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    #4 - Sedrun to Schwyz

    S8:E12

    Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam to learn how the Swiss use their mountainous environment to power the country.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Zurich
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    #5 - Zurich

    S8:E13

    In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists and visits the Grossmunster Church to learn about the rebellious pastor at the centre of the Swiss Reformation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Rotkreuz to Brienz
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    #6 - Rotkreuz to Brienz

    S8:E14

    Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the the steepest cog railways in the world and visits the 19th-century fairy-tale Grand Hotel Giessbach.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Zweisimmen to Lausanne
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    #7 - Zweisimmen to Lausanne

    S8:E15

    Aboard the Golden Pass Express, Michael Portillo wends his way in style down steep mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera. In Lausanne, he contends with a knife-wielding robotic arm.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Nantes to Lorient
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    #8 - Nantes to Lorient

    S8:E16

    Michael Portillo’s rail travels take him to the north west corner of France, where he explores the beautiful regions of Brittany and Normandy and learns of their connections with Great Britain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel
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    #9 - Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel

    S8:E18

    Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches Rennes, capital of Brittany. At the Lycee Emile Zola, he hears how the school was used as a military court for the second trial of Alfred Dreyfus.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Bayeux to Argentan
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    #10 - Bayeux to Argentan

    S8:E19

    In Bayeux, Michael Portillo admires the Bayeux Tapestry, the 70-metre-long work of art commissioned to record William the Conqueror's conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Lisieux to Giverny
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    #11 - Lisieux to Giverny

    S8:E20

    In the apple orchards of the Calvados region, Michael Portillo discovers how the classic digestif has been distilled since 1865 at the Pierre Huet estate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Kiev to Odessa
    6.6/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Kiev to Odessa

    S6:E1

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    Director:Dave Minchin
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Rome to Taormina
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #13 - Rome to Taormina

    S3:E2

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    Director:Dave Minchin
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Genoa to the Brenner Pass
    7.1/10(16 votes)

    #14 - Genoa to the Brenner Pass

    S5:E4

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    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Bordeaux to Bilbao
    7.3/10(22 votes)

    #15 - Bordeaux to Bilbao

    S2:E6

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    Director:Hayden King
    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Warsaw to Krakow
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #16 - Warsaw to Krakow

    S3:E3

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    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Lyon to Marseille
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #17 - Lyon to Marseille

    S3:E6

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    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Athens to Thessaloniki
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #18 - Athens to Thessaloniki

    S4:E4

    Armed with his 1913 Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo embarks on a Greek odyssey from Athens's port of Piraeus north to the city of Thessaloniki, captured the year before from the Ottoman Turks, who had ruled much of Greece for 400 years. Exploring the Acropolis and delighting in the tastes of moussaka and baklava, Michael discovers the many influences at play in the creation of modern Greece - from its classical past to the oriental Ottomans and the great European powers of Britain, France and Russia. Along the way, Michael discovers the parlous state of Greek finances at the time of his guidebook. He learns how an aristocratic English poet became a Greek national hero and relives Greek athletic victory at the first modern Olympic games.

    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Linz to Bratislava
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Linz to Bratislava

    S7:E5

    Michael Portillo travels by train through Austria and the Czech Republic, following his Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide, published in 1936. Michael’s journey takes him through spectacular scenery, from the handsome Baroque buildings of the northern Austrian city of Linz, through Czech South Bohemia to Prague, the city of a hundred spires, and onto the canyons and caves of the Moravian Karst region near Brno. He finishes on the River Danube in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Transylvania to the Black Sea
    7.5/10(18 votes)

    #20 - Transylvania to the Black Sea

    S5:E1

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    Director:Ben Rowland
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Rotterdam to Utrecht
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #21 - Rotterdam to Utrecht

    S5:E6

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    Director:Dave Minchin
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Dresden to Kiel
    7.6/10(23 votes)

    #22 - Dresden to Kiel

    S2:E3

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    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Prague to Munich
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #23 - Prague to Munich

    S2:E5

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  25. Background image for Haifa to the Negev
    7.6/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Haifa to the Negev

    S3:E5

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    Director:Dave Minchin
    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Zermatt to Geneva
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #25 - Zermatt to Geneva

    S5:E2

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    Writer:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Aarhus to Odense" is the worst rated episode of "Great Continental Railway Journeys". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/20/2025. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Roskilde to Copenhagen".