Overview
Michael Portillo is invited aboard the construction locomotive for Crossrail to travel under the Thames and to meet Mary, on whom the project depends. He travels on the capital's first railway, and admires the remarkable brick viaduct on which it was built. He takes a tour underneath its arches with a Victorian map showing the poverty of those who once lived there. The Docklands Light Railway takes him to Greenwich, home to Britain's most famous tea clipper. And in Woolwich, he discovers the firepower of the British Empire before coming to a sticky end at West Silverton.
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6 - 1Ayr to Stewarton January 05, 2015 -
6 - 2Greenock to Larkhall January 06, 2015 -
6 - 3Motherwell to Linlithgow January 07, 2015 -
6 - 4Stirling to Pitlochry January 08, 2015 -
6 - 5St Andrew's to Edinburgh January 09, 2015 -
6 - 6Amersham to Regent's Park January 12, 2015 -
6 - 7Deptford to West Silverton January 13, 2015 -
6 - 8Stratford to London Victoria January 14, 2015 -
6 - 9Covent Garden to Soho January 15, 2015 -
6 - 10High Street Kensington to London Bridge January 16, 2015 -
6 - 11Derby to Grantham January 19, 2015 -
6 - 12Boston to Hensall January 20, 2015 -
6 - 13Hessle to York January 21, 2015 -
6 - 14Middlesbrough to Hexham January 22, 2015 -
6 - 15Newcastle to Lindisfarne January 23, 2015 -
6 - 16Pembroke Dock to Swansea January 26, 2015 -
6 - 17Swansea to Hereford January 27, 2015 -
6 - 18Abergavenny to Hanborough January 28, 2015 -
6 - 19Oxford to Luton January 29, 2015 -
6 - 20Oakham to Cambridge January 30, 2015