Great Continental Railway Journeys (2012)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

9 seasons, 76 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A presenter uses a 1913 railway guide to travel through Europe and beyond by train. He compares the places he visits now to how they were in Edwardian times.

educationalnostalgicleisurelyinformativehistoriccuriouspleasant

What happens

Great Continental Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. In the early series, Portillo explores the railway networks of continental Europe, but in later series he also ventured further afield. He refers to a 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, as he describes how the places he visits have changed since Edwardian times. The first series was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 2012 and the seventh series first aired in 2020. After a five year hiatus, it was announced that a new series was to be shown in 2025 as part of the BBC's contribution to the "Railway 200" celebrations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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