Great British Railway Journeys - Series 2 - Waterloo to Canary Wharf

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. In a series of five epic journeys, Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains. Michael finds out about the Stiff's express, a funeral service running coffins from Waterloo to Brookwood cemetery. He discovers how London's West End became a great 19th-century shopping destination and explores the changing fortunes of London's docks.