The BEST episodes of Great British Railway Journeys season 13
Every episode of Great British Railway Journeys season 13, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Great British Railway Journeys season 13!
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways have changed it, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.
#1 - Deal to Margate
Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/20/2021
Michael heads to the splendid Walmer Castle, home during the 1920s to a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lord Beauchamp, whose openly homosexual lifestyle led to his exile from the country.
#2 - Dagenham to Battersea
Season 13 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/27/2021
Armed with his 1930s Bradshaw’s guide, Michael is in London, where he tracks the River Thames from east to west. Starting in Dagenham, he ends up at the iconic Battersea Power Station.
#4 - Biggin Hill to Ashdown Forest
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/17/2021
Michael Portillo experiences a terrifying ‘victory roll’ in a World War II Spitfire, meets a biographer of A.A. Milne and lends a hand at the community-owned Plaw Hatch Farm.
#5 - Hassocks to Benenden
Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/18/2021
Michael visits the village of Ditchling, once the home of a community of Catholic artists, before heading to Bexhill-on-Sea to learn about the role of ARP wardens during the war.
#6 - Chislehurst to Kennington
Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/24/2021
Michael continues his journeys in greater London, beginning on its southeastern fringe in the village of Chislehurst and ending up in Kennington to learn about the childhood of Charlie Chaplin.
#7 - Hampstead to Islington
Season 13 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2021
Michael’s rail tour of London continues in Hampstead, where Sigmund Freud found refuge from the Nazis. He ends up in Finsbury to learn about the influence of Russian emigre Berthold Lubetkin.
#8 - Rye to Dungeness
Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/19/2021
Michael Portillo follows his 1930s Bradshaw’s guide to the unspoilt East Sussex port of Rye, where he learns about the loss of a generation of lifeboatmen in 1928 and explores a wartime pillbox.
#9 - Herne Bay to Leeds Castle, Kent
Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/21/2021
Armed with his interwar copy of Bradshaw’s Guide to the Railways, Michael reaches the Kent seaside resort of Herne Bay, where he learns about a pioneering aviatrix.
#10 - Hackney Wick to Oxford Circus
Season 13 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/2021
Michael continues his travels through the capital in the heart of London’s East End. He begings in Hackney Wick, which today is transformed from the time of his 1930s Bradshaw’s guide.