Great Indian Railway Journeys TV Listings

Great Indian Railway Journeys TV listings this week

Great Indian Railway Journeys is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):

• Sun 31

  8:00 am ends 9:00 am

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  Amritsar to Shimla — Great Indian Railway Journeys

  Season 1 · Episode 1

  Guided by his Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael Portillo embarks on a rail journey from Amritsar to Shimla. Along the way he helps to feed people at the world's largest free kitchen, and travels the railway routes used by millions of migrants during Partition. Beginning in the Sikh holy city, Michael is dazzled by the beauty of the Golden Temple and awed by the scale of its langar - the world's largest free kitchen. His route then takes him through the Punjab, and at Kalka, Michael glimpses the Himalayas for the first time

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• Sun 31

  9:00 am ends 10:00 am

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  Jodhpur to Delhi — Great Indian Railway Journeys

  Season 1 · Episode 2

  Michael Portillo travels from Jodhpur to Delhi, heading into the desert to take a camel ride to a village where life has changed little in centuries, before embarking on the Jaipur-Agra-Delhi 'Golden Triangle' tour - India's must-do itinerary in 1913 as today. Michael also visits Agra, where he learns how the Taj Mahal, built by a Mughal emperor, was restored by a British viceroy at the time of his Bradshaw's guide book

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• Sun 31

  10:00 am ends 11:00 am

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  Mysuru to Chennai — Great Indian Railway Journeys

  Season 1 · Episode 3

  Michael Portillo's Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel leads him on railway journey through the modern south Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. He travels from the former princely state of Mysuru, aka Mysore, to the first stronghold of the East India Company in Chennai, formerly Madras

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