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#1 - Confessions of a Train Spotter
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/4/1980
Michael Palin travels from London to Kyle of Lochalsh in the north of Scotland.
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#2 - Introduction
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/1980
Travel From New York to Los Angeles With Ludovic Kennedy.
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#3 - Coast to Coast
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/1980
Travel From Sydney to Perth With Michael Frayn.
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#4 - The Long Straight
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/13/1980
Michael Frayn traces the route of Australia's trans-continental railway, the Indian Pacific, with a detour along the way.
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#5 - Deccan
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/1980
Brian Thompson travels through the south of India from Bombay to Cochin.
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#6 - Zambezi Express
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1980
Michael Wood travels from Cape Town to the Victoria Falls.
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#7 - Three Miles High
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/1980
Miles Kington travels from Lima in Peru through the Andes and Lake Titicaca to Bolivia.
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#8 - Changing Trains
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/1980
Eric Robson travels from Paris to Budapest via Zurich and Vienna.
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#9 - From Hong Kong to Ulaanbaatar
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/1994
Clive Anderson takes a humorous look at the contradictions and confusions of present-day China as he makes his way from Hong Kong, via Shanghai, Beijing and the Great Wall, to end up in Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia.
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#10 - Cape Town to the Lost City
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1994
Finally, in South Africa, Rian Malan escapes riot-torn Cape Town and makes his way across the country to Johannesburg, talking to people of all races and wrestling with South Africa's violent past and increasingly ominous future. He ends his journey amid the bizarre splendour of the Palace of the Lost City hotel in Bophuthatswana.
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#11 - St Petersburg to Tashkent
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/27/1994
Former Kirov prima ballerina Natalia Makarova explores the railways of Russia, taking in Volgograd, Samarkand and the river Volga, and dancing on the railway itself
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#12 - Derry to Kerry
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/1994
Palin's second Great Rail Journey (1994) takes him from the ancient walled city of Londonderry to the most western tip of Ireland. He travels his 'family line' as he attempts to trace his great grandmother who left Ireland for the USA over 150 years ago. His trip through still a war-torn Northern Ireland takes him on to Belfast before headng south to Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic, and on to Wexford, Waterford, the little village of Buttevant and finally Kerry's Dingle Bay, the most western point of Ireland.
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#13 - Santos to Santa Cruz
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/10/1994
In South America Lisa St Aubin de Terán travels from Santos on the coast of Brazil, near Sáo Paulo, over the mountains and plains of Brazil to the Pantanal Swamp, a wilderness of lush vegetation, and on to the city of Santa Cruz, home of the cocaine barons in Bolivia. She vividly describes the contrasts of beauty and poverty which she finds in the two countries.
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#14 - Karachi to the Khyber
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/1994
In Pakistan, Mark Tully journeys from Karachi in the south to the Khyber Pass on the Afghan border in the north, making a diversion to travel to Quetta via the spectacular Bolan Pass on one of the most challenging lines built by British engineers anywhere in the world.
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#15 - Crewe to Crewe with Victoria Wood
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1996
Victoria Wood makes a round trip to the north of Britain from Crewe, taking in both the east and west coasts, and Thurso, the most northerly point possible by train.
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#16 - Aleppo to Aqaba
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1996
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#18 - Halifax to Porteau Cove
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/1996
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#19 - India: East to West
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1999
Ian Hislop travels from Kolkata, the former capital of the British Raj and present seat of the Marxist government of West Bengal, to Rajasthan.
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#20 - Granada to Salamanca
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1999
Michael Portillo explores his roots in a trek across the railway networks of Spain.
Director: Jonathan Stedall
Writer: Michael Portillo
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#21 - Tokyo to Kagoshima
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1999
Fergal Keane travels through Japan and receives earthquake training and etiquette lessons.
Director: William Cran
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#22 - Los Mochis to Veracruz
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1999
Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
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#23 - Guantanamo to Pinar Del Rio
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1999
Nick Hancock crosses Cuba, battling hurricanes as well as the crumbling infrastructure.
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#24 - St Louis to Dogon Country
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1999
Hollywood star Danny Glover rides the oldest line in Africa, the Bamako Express.
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#25 - Singapore to Bangkok
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 4/6/1999
Stephen Tompkinson relives the days of colonial train travel as a pampered passenger on the Eastern and Oriental Express.
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The Best Episodes of Great Railway Journeys
Every episode of Great Railway Journeys ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Great Railway Journeys!
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of...
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Network:BBC Two
Best Episodes Summary
"Confessions of a Train Spotter" is the best rated episode of "Great Railway Journeys". It scored 8/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/4/1980. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Introduction".