Michael Portillo's " Great British Railway Journeys"

[pitdiver]

I have just watched some of the old editions of the above programmes. I am curious to know which station does he get on at and is it the same one where he picks up the ticket from.

 

[SeanG]

There are a lot of episodes so you may need to be a bit more specific.
However, note that he continuity in the series is notoriously horrendous

 

[Mcr Warrior]

In some of the early series, Mr. Portillo was quite often to be seen boarding a train at Box Hill and Westhumble station (in Surrey) at the beginning of each episode.

As @SeanG mentions, if you could advise some of the locations that were visited in a particular episode, it should be possible to better advise.

 

[pitdiver]

Sorry I should have said the station at the start of the programme. The one where he is carrying his suitcase

 

[EbbwJunction1]

It always amuses me that he's seen carrying a suitcase in the very early credits, but never again, not even when he's checking in to his hotel for the night!

Yes, I know that it's been taken there by the production staff, but maybe once he can actually carry it into the hotel?

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Had to laugh last night on his trip through Spain, during which he visited the CAF factory in Zaragoza and drove a Northern 331 inside the depot.
"Super smooth ride" was the classy comment (at 2km/h) - not repeated in normal service at Northern.
CAF is also having problems with its trams in various parts of the world, including Birmingham.

But the episode as a whole, including discovering his father's Civil War era records at Salamanca, was really very good.