Coastal Railways with Julie Walters | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Kim Maddever |
Presented by | Julie Walters |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Paul Sommers |
Producer | Martin Cass |
Running time | 48 minutes |
Production company | Alaska Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 26 November 17 December 2017 | –
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]
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.
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [6] | |
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1 | "West Highland Railway" [8] | Kim Maddever | 26 November 2017 | 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.
[7] | |||||
2 | "The East Coast Line" [8] | Kim Maddever | 3 December 2017 | 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" [8] | Kim Maddever | 10 December 2017 | 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" [8] | Kim Maddever | 17 December 2017 | 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] |
Coastal Railways with Julie Walters | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Kim Maddever |
Presented by | Julie Walters |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Paul Sommers |
Producer | Martin Cass |
Running time | 48 minutes |
Production company | Alaska Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 26 November 17 December 2017 | –
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]
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.
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [6] | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "West Highland Railway" [8] | Kim Maddever | 26 November 2017 | 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.
[7] | |||||
2 | "The East Coast Line" [8] | Kim Maddever | 3 December 2017 | 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" [8] | Kim Maddever | 10 December 2017 | 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" [8] | Kim Maddever | 17 December 2017 | 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] |