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Great Railway Journeys

Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.

Genre: Documentary,

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Type: tv

Season: 4

Episode: N/A

Duration: 60 minutes

Release: 1980-10-23

Rating: 7

1"Introduction"

1980-10-23

Travel From New York to Los Angeles With Ludovic Kennedy.

2"Coast to Coast"

1980-10-30

Travel From Sydney to Perth With Michael Frayn.

3"The Long Straight"

1980-11-13

Michael Frayn traces the route of Australia's trans-continental railway, the Indian Pacific, with a detour along the way.

4"Deccan"

1980-11-13

Brian Thompson travels through the south of India from Bombay to Cochin.

5"Confessions of a Train Spotter"

1980-12-04

Michael Palin travels from London to Kyle of Lochalsh in the north of Scotland.

6"Zambezi Express"

1980-12-04

Michael Wood travels from Cape Town to the Victoria Falls.

7"Three Miles High"

1980-12-11

Miles Kington travels from Lima in Peru through the Andes and Lake Titicaca to Bolivia.

8"Changing Trains"

1980-12-18

Eric Robson travels from Paris to Budapest via Zurich and Vienna.

1"From Hong Kong to Ulaanbaatar"

1994-01-13

Clive Anderson takes a humorous look at the contradictions and confusions of present-day China as he makes his way from Hong Kong, via Shanghai, Beijing and the Great Wall, to end up in Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia.

2"Cape Town to the Lost City"

1994-01-20

Finally, in South Africa, Rian Malan escapes riot-torn Cape Town and makes his way across the country to Johannesburg, talking to people of all races and wrestling with South Africa's violent past and increasingly ominous future. He ends his journey amid the bizarre splendour of the Palace of the Lost City hotel in Bophuthatswana.

3"St Petersburg to Tashkent"

1994-01-27

Former Kirov prima ballerina Natalia Makarova explores the railways of Russia, taking in Volgograd, Samarkand and the river Volga, and dancing on the railway itself

4"Derry to Kerry"

1994-02-03

Palin's second Great Rail Journey (1994) takes him from the ancient walled city of Londonderry to the most western tip of Ireland. He travels his 'family line' as he attempts to trace his great grandmother who left Ireland for the USA over 150 years ago. His trip through still a war-torn Northern Ireland takes him on to Belfast before headng south to Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic, and on to Wexford, Waterford, the little village of Buttevant and finally Kerry's Dingle Bay, the most western point of Ireland.

5"Santos to Santa Cruz"

1994-02-10

In South America Lisa St Aubin de Terán travels from Santos on the coast of Brazil, near Sáo Paulo, over the mountains and plains of Brazil to the Pantanal Swamp, a wilderness of lush vegetation, and on to the city of Santa Cruz, home of the cocaine barons in Bolivia. She vividly describes the contrasts of beauty and poverty which she finds in the two countries.

6"Karachi to the Khyber"

1994-02-17

In Pakistan, Mark Tully journeys from Karachi in the south to the Khyber Pass on the Afghan border in the north, making a diversion to travel to Quetta via the spectacular Bolan Pass on one of the most challenging lines built by British engineers anywhere in the world.

1"Crewe to Crewe with Victoria Wood"

1996-09-04

Victoria Wood makes a round trip to the north of Britain from Crewe, taking in both the east and west coasts, and Thurso, the most northerly point possible by train.

2"Aleppo to Aqaba"

1996-09-11

3"Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde"

4"The High Andes to Patagonia"

5"Mombasa to the Mountains of the Moon"

6"London to Arcadia"

1996-10-09

7"Halifax to Porteau Cove"

1996-10-16

1"India: East to West"

1999-01-05

Ian Hislop travels from Kolkata, the former capital of the British Raj and present seat of the Marxist government of West Bengal, to Rajasthan.