Charting the high and lows of Britain's railway - the invention created at the dawn of the 19th century that would change Britain and the world forever - from the ...

Presenter Michael Portillo, a British journalist, travels the railways throughout England using George Bradshaw's maps to compare 1840s-era Britain to modern-day Britain. Michael Portillo starts ...

Nonetheless, Great Britain is proud of its pioneering railway industry, and according to the Office of Rail and Road, Britain's railways are today among the safest in Europe.