Great Railway Journeys
8.4
1980
Documentary
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.
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Episode 8 : Changing Trains
December. 18,1980
Eric Robson travels from Paris to Budapest via Zurich and Vienna.
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Episode 7 : Three Miles High
December. 11,1980
Miles Kington travels from Lima in Peru through the Andes and Lake Titicaca to Bolivia.
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Episode 6 : Zambezi Express
December. 04,1980
Michael Wood travels from Cape Town to the Victoria Falls.
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Episode 5 : Confessions of a Train Spotter
December. 04,1980
Michael Palin travels from London to Kyle of Lochalsh in the north of Scotland.
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Episode 4 : Deccan
November. 13,1980
Brian Thompson travels through the south of India from Bombay to Cochin.
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Episode 3 : The Long Straight
November. 13,1980
Michael Frayn traces the route of Australia's trans-continental railway, the Indian Pacific, with a detour along the way.
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Episode 2 : Coast to Coast
October. 30,1980
Travel From Sydney to Perth With Michael Frayn.
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Episode 1 : Introduction
October. 23,1980
Travel From New York to Los Angeles With Ludovic Kennedy.
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