Season
Season 4 Episode
- Season 0 Manhattan Island – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 Brooklyn to Montauk – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 New York City to Albany – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 Schenectady to Niagara Falls – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 Philadelphia to Gettysburg – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 Wilmington to Fort McHenry – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 Washington to Mount Vernon – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 Manassas to Jamestown – Series 1 Reversions
- Season 0 St Louis to Jefferson City, Missouri – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Sedalia to St Joseph, Missouri – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Lawrence to Lamar, Colorado – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 La Junta to Colorado Springs – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Grand Canyon – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Minneapolis - St Paul – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Minnesota - Wisconsin – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Milwaukee to Chicago – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Chicago to Champaign, Illinois – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Illinois to Tennessee – Series 2 Reversions
- Season 0 Reno To The Napa Valley – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 San Francisco – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 Berkeley to Santa Cruz – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 Monterey to Los Angeles – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 Los Angeles to San Diego – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 Boston to Concord – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 Plymouth to New London – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 New Haven to Plattsburgh – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 Montreal to Ottawa – Series 3 Reversions
- Season 0 Thousand Islands to Toronto – Series 3 Reversions
Great American Railroad Journeys - Season 0 Episode 1 Manhattan Island – Series 1 Reversions
8.50 29 minutes Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America with a new travelling companion. Armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879, Michael begins his American adventure on Manhattan Island.
Starting at New York's Grand Central Terminal, he boards the Manhattan subway system, the busiest rail transit system in the US. He learns about Manhattan's iconic skyscrapers, then heads to the Financial District where, over a lobster newberg, he finds out how the dodgy political dealings of the era's most prominent industrialists earned them the nickname 'Robber Barons'.
In an urban oasis, Michael finds out how a swampy wasteland was turned into one of the largest and finest parks in the world - Central Park. A celebrity welcome from the resting actors of Broadway awaits him at Ellen's Stardust Diner. In the Lower East Side, Michael is drawn into a scrap with one of the neighbourhood's infamous historic gangs, and he visits the grim tenements where thousands of immigrants lived and worked.
Michael then heads by ferry to Ellis Island, the gateway to America for many millions seeking a new life in the new world. He finishes this leg of his journey with a tour of the gleaming new transport hub under construction close to the site of Ground Zero.
