Great Railway Journeys
Episode No Episode Title UK Broadcast Date Presenter Countries Visited
# 2.1 Hong Kong to Ulaanbaatar 1994-01-13 Clive Anderson Hong Kong , China , Mongolia
# 2.2 Cape Town to The Lost City 1994-01-20 Rian Malan South Africa
# 2.3 St. Petersburg to Tashkent 1994-01-27 Natalia Makarova Russia , Uzbekistan
# 2.4 Derry to Kerry 1994-02-03 Michael Palin Northern Ireland , Republic of Ireland
# 2.5 Santos to Santa Cruz 1994-02-10 Lisa St Aubin de Terán Brazil , Bolivia
# 2.6 Karachi to The Khyber Pass 1994-02-17 Mark Tully Pakistan
Series -- Series 2 : Great Railway Journeys ( 1994 )
Episode summary for Series 2 : [ 5 ]
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. The first series, which used the longer title, was broadcast on BBC2 in 1980. After a 14-year hiatus, a further three series were broadcast between 1994 and 1999, using the shorter series title. Similar series were broadcast in 1983, Great Little Railways, and 2010, Great British Railway Journeys. The first series is notable in that it featured the first television travelogue by comedian and comic actor Michael Palin (Confessions of a Trainspotter), who would go on to become as well known for his travel series (such as Pole to Pole and Sahara) as for his comedy. English musician and sound artist Chris Watson worked as an audio recorder for the fourth episode Los Mochis to Veracruz of the fourth season. Having spent between five weeks to a month on the train, Watson used field recordings of the journey for his 2011 album El Tren Fantasma.