BBC - Great British Railway Journeys Series 12 (2021) Part 13 Bangor to Betws-y-Coed (2021)

Great British Railway Journeys Series 12

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways have changed it, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

Part 13 Bangor to Betws-y-Coed (2021)

Michael Portillo continues his 1936 Bradshaw's-inspired railway tour of North Wales in the coastal city of Bangor before turning south from Llandudno Junction to travel the Conwy Valley Line to Betws y Coed, the gateway to Snowdonia. At Bangor Station, Michael hears how, when war broke out in September 1939, 2,000 children from the cities of northern England were evacuated by train to north Wales. At Dolgarrog, Michael investigates the worst dam disaster in Welsh history,

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