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Great British Railway Journeys

Series 12

Crewe to Shotton

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Four

Michael Portillo is in Crewe, a town steeped in railway history and immortalised in Victorian music hall, to investigate the making of the iconic cinema classic The Night Mail during the 1930s. Show more

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