| Great Coastal Railway Journeys | |
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| Genre | Travel documentary |
| Presented by | Michael Portillo |
| Composer | Jon Wygens |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Release | 24 January 2022 – present |
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Great Coastal Railway Journeys is a BBC documentary series produced by Naked West and presented by Michael Portillo,[1] a former Conservative MP and Minister of State for Transport.[2]
Following the format of Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode of this series features a coastal railway journey through England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. Series 1 was first broadcast on BBC Two in January–February 2022, series 2 in May–June 2023, and series 3 in April–May 2024.[3]
In addition to Great British Railway Journeys (15 series; 2013–2024), Portillo has presented seven other programmes with a similar format: Great Continental Railway Journeys (7 series; 2012–2020), Great American Railroad Journeys (4 series; 2016–2020), Great Indian Railway Journeys (2018), Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys and Great Canadian Railway Journeys (broadcast consecutively in January 2019), Great Australian Railway Journeys (2019), Great Asian Railway Journeys (2020).