Synopsis

Clad in the colours of the Welsh flag and clutching a newly acquired Edwardian Bradshaw’s guide, Michael Portillo begins his railway journey, travelling from the coalfields of south Wales around the Bristol Channel to Cornwall’s southernmost point. His initial destination is Whitland, in Carmarthenshire, where early twentieth-century adventurers once flocked to Pendine Sands, drawn by a desire for speed. There, he joins modern enthusiasts as they put the power down on the beach in a classic thre