Great British Railway Journeys
Blackpool to Manchester Victoria
S8 E6:
Michael Portillo embarks on a new journey across Bradshaw's Britain with his Victorian guidebook, starting in Blackpool. He heads towards Manchester, where George Stephenson built the world's first modern railway line. At a moving ceremony in Manchester Piccadilly station, Michael unveils a new monument to workers of the London and North Western Railway, who lost their lives in the Great War.