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- Season 0 1970-01-01
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- Season 13 Biggin Hill to Ashdown Forest
- Season 13 Hassocks to Benenden
- Season 13 Rye to Dungeness
- Season 13 Deal to Margate
- Season 13 Herne Bay to Leeds Castle, Kent
- Season 13 Chislehurst to Kennington
- Season 13 Hackney Wick to Oxford Circus
- Season 13 Hampstead to Islington
- Season 13 Dagenham to Battersea
- Season 13 Park Royal to Westminster
Great British Railway Journeys - Season 13 Episode 3 Rye to Dungeness
7.30 30 minutes Michael Portillo follows his 1930s Bradshaw’s guide to the unspoilt East Sussex port of Rye, where he learns about the loss of a generation of lifeboatmen in 1928 and explores a wartime pillbox.
On the beaches at Rye, Michael explores one of 28,000 pillboxes constructed around the British coastline during World War II and hears from a military historian about how the nation prepared for an expected German invasion.
Train heaven beckons as Michael boards the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway to cross Romney Marsh en route to Dungeness. Along the way, he hears about the eccentric inventor of the railway, Count Louis Zborowski.
From Dungeness, Michael heads to the former RAF base of Denge, where he discovers a cluster of giant concrete structures with an intriguing name, Sound Mirrors. The RSPB warden in whose nature reserve they stand explains their history to Michael.
