How many seasons does Great Continental Railway Journeys have?

Great Continental Railway Journeys has 8 seasons and 57 episodes.

Is Great Continental Railway Journeys renewed or canceled?

Great Continental Railway Journeys is currently returning. A premiere date has not been announced yet.

Where can I watch Great Continental Railway Journeys?

Great Continental Railway Journeys is available on BBC Two.

Great Continental Railway Journeys

Name: Great Continental Railway Journeys
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-11-08
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Michael Portillo

RETURNING8 Seasons57 Episodes★ 8.4

NetworkBBC Two

First AiredNov 8, 2012

Last AiredApr 4, 2025

GenreDocumentary

Runtime60 min

Created ByMichael Portillo

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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Cast

Michael Portillo

Self - Presenter

Seasons & Episodes8 seasons · 57 episodes

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Bradshaw's 1913 Guide in hand, Michael Portillo embarks on another rail journey.

E1Pula to Pazin

Mar 10, 202529m

Michael Portillo mounts a valiant defence against fierce latter-day Roman gladiators in Pula's amphitheatre as he begins a journey across the Balkan countries of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

E2Buzet to Pag

Mar 11, 202528m

Ably assisted by Lila, an expert labrador, Michael Portillo hunts for truffles in the Istrian countryside near the hilltop town of Buzet.

E3Knin to Split

Mar 12, 202528m

Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches the Dalmatian coastal city of Zadar, once an important Venetian trading hub and still a centre for the production of Maraschino cherry liqueur.

E4Sarajevo

Mar 13, 202529m

In Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, Michael Portillo traces the fateful last journey in 1914 of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie.

E5Mostar to Dubrovnik

Mar 14, 202529m

Michael Portillo enjoys a journey on the historic line from Sarajevo to Mostar, descending 600 metres through the Dinaric Alps, reflecting on the divisions which tour apart the old Yugoslavia.

E6Bergen to Flåm

Mar 17, 202528m

Michael Portillo embarks on a Scandinavian railway adventure from the Norwegian port of Bergen to the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

E7Myrdal to Heddal

Mar 18, 202528m

Michael Portillo’s rail journey continues on the Bergen Line, heading towards the Norwegian capital of Oslo, with its fine modernist architecture and 19th-century parliament building.

E8Larvik to Holstebro

Mar 19, 202528m

Michael’s saga resumes in Larvik on Norway’s southern coast, where he investigates the city’s prized natural resource, a distinctive blue rock named larvikite.

E9Aarhus to Odense

Mar 20, 202529m

Michael Portillo’s Scandinavian rail adventure reaches Denmark’s second city, Aarhus, an architectural playground with dazzling contemporary buildings set alongside historic half-timbered houses.

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E10Roskilde to Copenhagen

Mar 21, 202529m

Michael Portillo concludes his epic rail journey across Norway and Denmark, crossing an 18-kilometre box girder bridge between the islands of Funen and Zealand, known as the Great Belt Bridge.

E11Maienfeld to the Rhine Gorge

Mar 24, 202528m

Michael Portillo is transported 150 years back in time to the tiny Alpine village home of Switzerland’s most famous child, Heidi, and heads to the Rhine Gorge, also known as the Swiss Grand Canyon.

E12Sedrun to Schwyz

Mar 25, 202529m

Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam to learn how the Swiss use their mountainous environment to power the country.

E13Zurich

Mar 26, 202528m

In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists and visits the Grossmunster Church to learn about the rebellious pastor at the centre of the Swiss Reformation.

E14Rotkreuz to Brienz

Mar 27, 202529m

Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the the steepest cog railways in the world and visits the 19th-century fairy-tale Grand Hotel Giessbach.

E15Zweisimmen to Lausanne

Mar 28, 202529m

Aboard the Golden Pass Express, Michael Portillo wends his way in style down steep mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera. In Lausanne, he contends with a knife-wielding robotic arm.

E16Nantes to Lorient

Mar 31, 202528m

Michael Portillo’s rail travels take him to the north west corner of France, where he explores the beautiful regions of Brittany and Normandy and learns of their connections with Great Britain.

E17Brest to St Brieuc

Apr 1, 202528m

Michael Portillo’s railway journey reaches the naval port of Brest, home to France’s oceanographic fleet. He also learns how to make a sweet, buttery Breton cake called kouign-amann.

E18Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel

Apr 2, 202529m

Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches Rennes, capital of Brittany. At the Lycee Emile Zola, he hears how the school was used as a military court for the second trial of Alfred Dreyfus.

E19Bayeux to Argentan

Apr 3, 202528m

In Bayeux, Michael Portillo admires the Bayeux Tapestry, the 70-metre-long work of art commissioned to record William the Conqueror's conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

E20Lisieux to Giverny

Apr 4, 202529m

In the apple orchards of the Calvados region, Michael Portillo discovers how the classic digestif has been distilled since 1865 at the Pierre Huet estate.

About Great Continental Railway Journeys

Great Continental Railway Journeys is a documentary series on BBC Two. The show first aired on Nov 8, 2012 and currently has 8 seasons and 57 episodes. Great Continental Railway Journeys has been renewed and is returning for more episodes. It has a rating of 8.4/10 based on 11 votes. The cast includes Michael Portillo. Created by Michael Portillo.