Great Australian Railway Journeys

RTE2

2:50 PM to 4:00 PM

Saturday 4 October

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Michael Portillo travels by rail through Queensland, marvelling at the engineering expertise of a railway line built in the 1890s. He visits a plantation where he learns how to harvest sugar cane, finds out how the townsfolk of Innisfail withstand the tropical storms that strike the region and ventures into the hinterland, where he braves a crocodile safari. At Mungalla Cattle Station, he hears how aboriginal people faced brutality at the hands of 19th-century settlers and after a singalong, he makes tracks for his end destination of Townsville - the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef