Coastal Railways with Julie Walters

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Coastal Railways with Julie Walters
Genre Documentary
Directed byKim Maddever
Presented by Julie Walters
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4
Production
Executive producerPaul Sommers
ProducerMartin Cass
Running time48 minutes
Production companyAlaska Productions
Original release
Network Channel 4
Release26 November (2017-11-26) 
17 December 2017 (2017-12-17)

Coastal Railways with Julie Walters is a British television programme on Channel 4 presented by actress Julie Walters that first aired on 26 November 2017. A re-edited version combining the first two episodes and entitled Scotland's Coastal Railways with Julie Walters was broadcast on 10 January 2021. [1]

Contents

History

Julie Walters introduces the programmes telling of her own love of the coast. Each episode features Walters travelling for five days on a coastal railway in Britain, experiencing the landscapes and its people. [2] [3]

The series' first distribution in the United States took place in July 2018, on the video streaming service Acorn TV, [4] [5] and in 2019 it aired on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network stations.

List of episodes

No. in
series
TitleDirected byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [6]
1"West Highland Railway" [7] Kim Maddever26 November 2017 (2017-11-26)2.43
After starting on the Caledonian Canal, Walters travels along Scotland's West Highland Railway over the Glenfinnan Viaduct on her way to visit Mallaig and the Isle of Skye. [8]
2"The East Coast Line" [7] Kim Maddever3 December 2017 (2017-12-03)2.12
Walters travels along the East Coast Main Line from Newcastle to Edinburgh. She sees a branch line being reinstated to Alnwick, meets beachcombers near Berwick-Upon-Tweed, visits one of "the world's most extreme caravan parks" with impressive sea views, goes fishing for lobsters, then discovers the secrets of the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh. [9]
3"The Great Western Road" [7] Kim Maddever10 December 2017 (2017-12-10)N/A
Walters travels along the Great Western Main Line and some of its branch lines built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Devon and Cornwall. She visits RNLI at St. Ives, and hears about smuggling history in Polperro and a haunted castle in Kingswear. [10]
4"Wales to Liverpool" [7] Kim Maddever17 December 2017 (2017-12-17)N/A
Walters travels from Aberystwyth in Wales to Liverpool. She visits a historical railway in Tywyn, takes the Ffestiniog railway up Snowdonia, takes a zip-wire ride and visits Europe's biggest pet cemetery. [11]

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