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Returning: Great Continental Railways

SBS has shelved plans to screen Treasures Of Ancient Egypt this Wednesday night.

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SBS has shelved plans to screen Treasures Of Ancient Egypt this Wednesday night and instead scheduled the third season of Great Continental Railway Journeys.

“Tula To St Petersburg”
With Bradshaw’s 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand, Michael Portillo penetrates the eastern extreme of Europe to journey through the vast country of Russia. Among the golden onion domes and icons of Tula, Michael is moved by the sound of a Russian Orthodox choir. He visits the beautiful country estate of Yasnaya Polyana, where Tolstoy wrote his masterpieces, and learns how the author’s life and works were inextricably entwined with the railways. Next Michael explores the beauty and history of St Petersburg, from the great Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent Winter Palace with its Hermitage Museum, then rides the first railway ever built in Russia between the city and the Tsar’s village – Tsarskoye Selo.

7:30pm Wednesday SBS

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