S9E3:Croydon to Shoreham-by-Sea

3 Jan 201829 minTV-PG

Contains Suggestive Dialogue.

With the modern British rail network now half the size of the Edwardian one, Michael Portillo is delighted to discover a railway renaissance in the town of Three Bridges. He visits West Croydon, where he uncovers a now forgotten, mixed-race composer with a familiar name. At Shoreham-by-Sea, he discovers that Edwardians in flying machines took off from the oldest airport in the United Kingdom.