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Status: Returning Series
First Aired: November 8, 2012
Seasons: 8
Episodes: 57
Networks: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary

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Great Continental Railway Journeys(2012)

TMDB Rating: 8.6 (9 votes)

Overview

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

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Season 1

5 episodes • 2012

#	Episode	Air Date
1	London to Monte Carlo	Nov 8, 2012
2	Hungary to Austria	Nov 15, 2012
3	Berlin to the Rhein	Nov 22, 2012
4	Switzerland	Nov 29, 2012
5	Amsterdam to Northern France	Dec 6, 2012

Season 2

6 episodes • 2013

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Madrid to Gibraltar	Oct 27, 2013
2	Turin to Venice	Nov 3, 2013
3	Dresden to Kiel	Nov 10, 2013
4	Copenhagen to Oslo	Nov 17, 2013
5	Prague to Munich	Nov 24, 2013
6	Bordeaux to Bilbao	Dec 1, 2013

Season 3

6 episodes • 2014

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Tula to St Petersburg	Nov 5, 2014
2	Rome to Taormina	Nov 12, 2014
3	Warsaw to Krakow	Nov 19, 2014
4	La Coruña to Lisbon	Nov 26, 2014
5	Haifa to the Negev	Dec 3, 2014
6	Lyon to Marseille	Dec 10, 2014

Season 4

6 episodes • 2015

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Sofia to Istanbul	Oct 16, 2015
2	Vienna to Trieste	Oct 23, 2015
3	Pisa to Lake Garda	Oct 30, 2015
4	Athens to Thessaloniki	Nov 13, 2015
5	The Black Forest to Hannover	Nov 20, 2015
6	Barcelona to Mallorca	Nov 27, 2015

Season 5

6 episodes • 2016

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Transylvania to the Black Sea	Sep 20, 2016
2	Zermatt to Geneva	Sep 27, 2016
3	Tangier to Marrakech	Oct 4, 2016
4	Genoa to the Brenner Pass	Oct 11, 2016
5	Riga to Tampere	Oct 18, 2016
6	Rotterdam to Utrecht	Oct 25, 2016

Season 6

2 episodes • 2018

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Kiev to Odessa	Mar 8, 2018	0.0
2	Batumi to Baku	Mar 15, 2018	0.0

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Season 7

6 episodes • 2020

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Salamanca to Canfranc	Jul 29, 2020
2	Orleans to Reims	Aug 5, 2020
3	Berlin to Stuttgart	Aug 12, 2020
4	Palermo to Mt Etna	Aug 19, 2020
5	Linz to Bratislava	Sep 2, 2020
6	Stockholm to the Arctic Circle	Sep 10, 2020

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Series 8

20 episodes • 2025

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Pula to Pazin	Mar 10, 2025
2	Buzet to Pag	Mar 11, 2025
3	Knin to Split	Mar 12, 2025
4	Sarajevo	Mar 13, 2025
5	Mostar to Dubrovnik	Mar 14, 2025
6	Bergen to Flåm	Mar 17, 2025
7	Myrdal to Heddal	Mar 18, 2025
8	Larvik to Holstebro	Mar 19, 2025
9	Aarhus to Odense	Mar 20, 2025
10	Roskilde to Copenhagen	Mar 21, 2025
11	Maienfeld to the Rhine Gorge	Mar 24, 2025
12	Sedrun to Schwyz	Mar 25, 2025
13	Zurich	Mar 26, 2025
14	Rotkreuz to Brienz	Mar 27, 2025
15	Zweisimmen to Lausanne	Mar 28, 2025
16	Nantes to Lorient	Mar 31, 2025
17	Brest to St Brieuc	Apr 1, 2025
18	Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel	Apr 2, 2025
19	Bayeux to Argentan	Apr 3, 2025
20	Lisieux to Giverny	Apr 4, 2025

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