Great British Railway Journeys

7:35 AM to 8:00 AM
Tuesday 10 June
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Derby to Grantham

Season 6 Episode 11 of 20

Michael Portillo embarks on a new journey following his Bradshaw's handbook from the heart of the industrial East Midlands to the island of Lindisfarne off the coast of Northumberland. On the first leg, he gives an old engine a fresh start in the railway hub of Derby, heads to Nottingham to find out about the Victorian origins of a well-known high-street chemist and calls at a historic one-time grocer's shop in Grantham, Lincolnshire

Great British Railway Journeys airs on U&Yesterday at 7:35 AM, Tuesday 10 June. (Subtitles.)
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Michael Portillo
Presenter
John Comerford
Executive Producer
Alison Kreps
Series Producer