Great Indian Railway Journeys (2018)

Genre

documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Michael Portillo travels across India by train, using a 1913 travel guide to explore different destinations. He visits cities and historical sites, observing how places have changed.

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What happens

Great Indian Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, in which he travels on the railway networks of India, referring to a 1913 copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook of Indian, Foreign And Colonial Travel, as he visits various destinations throughout India. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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