Great American Railroad Journeys
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| Genre | Travel documentary |
| Presented by | Michael Portillo |
| Composer(s) | Jon Wygens |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 35 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | John Comerford |
| Producer(s) | Alison Kreps |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Boundless |
| Distributor | BBC |
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| Original network |
BBC Two BBC Two HD |
| Original release | 1 February 2016 – present |
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Great American Railroad Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and aired on BBC Two. Using an 1879 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of the United States and Canada, Portillo travels across the United States primarily by train, though at times uses other forms of transportation where necessary. His journeys see him making stops to learn how important historical sites, influential historical events, famous Americans, and the railroads of the 19th century, influenced the country's growth into a major superpower.
When broadcast, each series originally consisted of 30-minute episodes, broadcast during consecutive weekday evenings. They were later repeated in a revised schedule (described as "Reversions") which combined and re-edited two episodes of the original broadcast to create a series of 1-hour episodes; as Series 1 consisted of fifteen 30-minute episodes, the "Brooklyn to Montauk" episode was revised as an extended version that included additional content not seen in the original broadcast schedule. The DVD of Series 1 consists only of the original fifteen episodes. To date, two series of the programme have been broadcast since its debut on 1 February 2016.
In his first series, Portillo took two railroad journeys in the north-east of the United States, spanning a total of 15 episodes. His first journey took him across the US State of New York, travelling around New York City and Long Island before heading to Niagara Falls via New York's state capital of Albany and Buffalo. His second journey took him across the Mid-Atlantic States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, travelling from Philadelphia to Jamestown, via Washington, D.C..
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