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Michael Portillo's 200 Years of the Railways

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• 2025

• Documentary
• Travel

Summary

The broadcaster and train enthusiast celebrates the modern railway's 200th anniversary

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  As the founders of the modern railway, why has Britain fallen so far behind?
  
  We may have founded the modern railway, but other countries have left us in the sidings, says the former politician and railway enthusiast Michael Portillo.

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