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- Season 0 1970-01-01
- Season 1 2010-01-04
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- Season 12 2021-04-26
- Season 13 2021-05-17
- Season 14 2023-06-19
- Season 15 2024-03-18
- Season 16 2025-04-07
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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 7 Hackney Wick to Oxford Circus
7.30 30 minutes Michael continues his travels through the capital in the heart of London’s East End. Michael explores Hackney Wick, today transformed from the time of his 1930s Bradshaw’s guide, when factories belched smoke and the Communist Party of Great Britain launched The Daily Worker. Michael hears about the newspaper’s origins and aims from the editor of its modern incarnation, The Morning Star.
A bout in the ring at Repton Boxing Club has Michael floating like a butterfly - if not stinging like a bee - as he discovers one of Britain’s greatest fighters, Ted 'Kid' Lewis. Michael is captivated by the story of the Jewish refugee from the Russian pogroms, who twice became welterweight champion of the world.
A night at one of the earliest railway hotels, the Great Northern, sets the scene for Michael to explore the railway revolution of the interwar years, when around 150 companies were rationalised into the 'big four', heralding a golden age of glamour, speed and style.
