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Blackpool to Manchester Victoria

Blackpool to Manchester Victoria On a new journey across Bradshaw's Britain with his Victorian guidebook. He makes potent new friends in Fleetwood then heads to Manchester, where George Stephenson built the world's first modern railway line. This epoch-defining achievement is being incorporated into a new multi-million pound rail link between Manchester's Victoria and Piccadilly stations and Michael lends a hand with the welding. At a moving ceremony in Manchester Piccadilly station, Michael unveils a new monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway, who lost their lives in the Great War.
Aired: Jan 09, 2017 Genre: DocumentaryCasts: Michael PortilloProducers:Duration: 30m Rating: 0 Country: United Kingdom Production: Talkback Thames, Fremantle UK