Bouncing back onto Britain’s trainlines, Michael Portillo fronts a new two-parter celebrating the bicentenary of the railway.
Now 17 years into filming his global train travels, it’s a passion borne from Michael’s childhood experiences, as he tells us…
“Among the journeys I used to make as a child were once or twice a year up to Scotland, where my grandparents lived,” he reveals. “We travelled overnight, crossing the iconic Forth Bridge. Little boys get very excited about these things!”
Covering the North-East and North-West, Michael enjoys many train rides – and in County Durham witnesses All Change, an open-air event telling the story of two centuries of the railway…
“We saw a replica of the Locomotion No. 1, and the history of those involved – the Stephensons, George and Robert,…
