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10 episodes in this season

Biggin Hill to Ashdown Forest

30 min

Hassocks to Benenden

30 min

Rye to Dungeness

30 min

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Deal to Margate

30 min

Herne Bay to Leeds Castle, Kent

30 min

Chislehurst to Kennington

30 min

Hackney Wick to Oxford Circus

30 min

Hampstead to Islington

30 min

Dagenham to Battersea

30 min

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Park Royal to Westminster

30 min

Great British Railway Journeys

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Deal to Margate

Season 13 · Episode 4 · May 20, 2021

From the Kent Cinque Port of Deal, Michael heads to the splendid Walmer Castle, home during the 1920s to a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lord Beauchamp. Michael’s guide, the founder of the LGBTQ working group for English Heritage, tells Michael of the lavish homosexual parties Lord Beauchamp held at the castle and how his openly hedonistic lifestyle, at a time when homosexuality was illegal, resulted in his exile from the country. Tracking the east Kent coast, Michael reaches the Royal Harbour of Ramsgate, where he remembers the courage of the little ships that evacuated men from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. Michael goes deep underground to see where the town’s residents sheltered from enemy bombs in a two-and-a-half mile long disused railway tunnel, some for up to five years. Next stop is Margate, 'an exuberant resort' according to Bradshaw’s and the holiday destination of choice for Londoners drawn by the town’s pioneering amusement park, Dreamland.

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Great British Railway Journeys

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201030m7.4

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Deal to Margate

Season 13 · Episode 4 · May 20, 2021

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