prepares to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the world s first passenger railway, i ve decided to only use trains made here. horn honks along the way, i ll cross some stunning landscapes and meet people whose lives have been transformed by the great british railway. horn blows i wanted to bring us down this slimyjetty here cos i wanted to show off portsmouth harbour station. as you come in, you feel like you re on land, but actually, it s an old pier, and this used to function as a freight boat pier in the mid 1800s. i m starting my rail adventure on england s southern coastline, passing through london, the midlands, into the yorkshire dales, then crossing scotland, up through the highlands, and hopefully making it to thurso, the most northerly railway station in the uk. sometimes find hermit crabs. there isn t a hermit crab in this one, though. tannoy: please buy a ticket before getting onto a train. i as luck would have it, i happened to be wearing the specific badge to t
use trains made here. my name is francis bourgeois and i ve taken on the challenge to travel from the southern coast of england. did your ears pop? ..to the northern coast of scotland. we re just past the highest point of the uk network. along the way, i ll cross some stunning landscapes and meet people whose lives have been transformed by the great british railway. horn blows. i wanted to bring us down this slimy jetty here cos i wanted to show off portsmouth harbour station. as you come in, you feel like you re on land, but actually, it s an old pier, and this used to function as a freight boat pier in the mid 1800s. i m starting my rail adventure on england s southern coastline, passing through london, the midlands, into the yorkshire dales, then crossing scotland, up through the highlands, and hopefully making it to thurso, the most northerly railway station in the uk. sometimes find hermit crabs. there isn t a hermit crab in this one, though. tannoy: please buy a ticket
up through the highlands, and hopefully making it to thurso, the most northerly railway station in the uk. sometimes find hermit crabs. there isn t a hermit crab in this one, though. tannoy: please buy a ticket before getting onto a train. i as luck would have it, i happened to be wearing the specific badge to the train we re travelling on 166210. i actually used to get this train to see my parents when i used to live in portsmouth. so, yeah, i m really excited. and all the better doing it on br rolling stock, too. essentially, that means trains made in the uk in the era of british rail up to the mid 90s, before the network was privatised. tickets, please. hiya. hello. ta. thank you. this country invented the railway, and, once, we used to design and build locomotives that were sent across the world, slashing journey times between great cities. but as the uk s manufacturing industries declined, railway companies here found it cheaper to import trains from overseas. yeah, 7
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welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. donald trump s days in power are numbered, with joe biden about to be inaugurated. but many democrats want mr trump out sooner. a resolution has gone to the floor of the house of representatives, calling for mr trump s cabinet, led by the vice president, mike pence, to strip the president of his presidential powers. the house is expected to vote on tuesday. the democrats have also started the process of impeaching the president, for an unprecedented second time. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher has more on the impeachment process and the 25th amendment. mike, these are methods that the democrats are using to try to get donald trump out of office in these waning days of his presidency. they have said he is a threat and he has committed interaction, or he asked for insurrection, against the government and strong steps need to be taken, so the house speaker has said she would prefer this option of