Moreover, without the railways, India would not have been connected and could not have become one country. ~ Michael Portillo. Forget the tourist trains and see Northern India as it should be done on this maiden journey of Magnificent Rail. Retrace some of Bradshaw's epic trips documented in his 1913 handbook: Indian, Foreign and Colonial Great Indian Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, [1] in which he travels on the railway networks of India, referring to a 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Handbook Of Indian, Foreign And Colonial Travel, as he visits various destinations throughout India. Contents 1 Episodes 1.1 Series 1 (2018) 457 views, 5 likes, 1 loves, 1 comments, 4 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Journeys world: Michael Portillo's Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel leads him on railway 2018-2019; 1 Season BBC Two Documentary, Travel Watchlist; Michael Portillo travels across India guided by his Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel. Great Indian Railway Journeys. Season 1. (160) 2018. Steered by his 1913 copy of Bradshaw’s Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael experiences the thrill of Indian rail travel as he journeys through an extraordinary landscape of majestic mountains, scorching deserts and plains watered by holy rivers! SYNOPSIS. On an epic railway journey from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal, Michael Portillo uses his Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, published when the British Raj was fifty-five years old, to chart a course through India's history from the days of The East India Company to the dawn of independence. Great Indian Railway Journeys Guided by a century-old Bradshaw's Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael Portillo embarks on a railway adventure across India and takes in the extraordinary variety of the Indian landscape. English español suomi TheTVDB.com Series ID 344634 Status Ended First Aired March 20, 2018 Airs Tuesday, SBS is to screen another Michael Portillo travel series, Great Indian Railway Journeys. The popular host undertakes classic Indian journeys, aided by his Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel. Portillo has also filmed Great Australian Railway Journeys which SBS is yet to formally announce. Episode One: Amritsar To Shimla In 2019, using Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities and Bathing and Health Resorts of the World: A Handbook of Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Travel, Portillo visited Australia to travel our railways in the series Great Australian Railway Journeys. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 2019, and aired in Australia on SBS this year.