SBS adding trains to Sundays

At this rate Michael Portillo will be getting his own channel….

Not content with Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays (at various times), SBS is adding trains to Sundays.

It will show repeats of travelogues with Michael Portillo late afternoons, leading into primetime from this Sunday. This replaces repeats of Tony Robinson’s World War I.

Sunday October 1
5:30pm Railways Of The Great War: A Railway War Begins
Michael Portillo travels through Britain and northern Europe uncovering railway stories from the Great War. In this first episode, Michael begins his quest in Metz on European tracks built with war in mind, charts the birth of the railway war at a small station in Luxembourg and discovers how
Britain’s railways coped with the challenge of sending thousands of troops to join the conflict from Southampton. Finally, he returns to France to learn how the early war of movement gave way to the stalemate of the trenches. Rpt.

6:00pm Railways Of The Great War – Railways And Railwaymen Called To Action
Michael travels to the north east to find out about the brave railwaymen who paid the ultimate
sacrifice. Then it’s on to Banbury where the railways’ manufacturing expertise turned a crisis into a victory. In Hampshire, Michael meets the proud son of a railwayman who, as a Royal Engineer, taught soldiers to be railwaymen and trained railwaymen to be soldiers. Finally, on the south coast he meets the big guns that turned the tide of war. Rpt.

It continues Sunday October 8 and concludes Monday October 9.