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You can stream Great British Railway Journeys (2010) on Apple TV+ with a subscription.

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

Can a nineteenth-century guidebook still navigate the landscape of modern Britain? Follow a vintage map through changing countryside to see which relics of the steam age survived the passage of time.