Plot: Michael Portillo embarks on a new journey from Manchester, birthplace of George Bradshaw, the publisher of his trusted guide, to Chesterfield, burial place of George Stephenson, the father of the railway. In the first leg of the journey, Michael finds out how the world's first industrialised city also gave birth to a revolutionary political movement and hears how railway workers founded one of the most successful football clubs in the world
Great British Railway Journeys - Season 5 - Manchester to Birkenhead (Episode 1)
Episode Aired On:
Monday, January 6 2014
10 years ago
Monday, January 6 2014
10 years ago
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