Former British politician Michael Portillo used a copy of what was described as a Bradshaw's guide (the 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland) for Great British Railway Journeys, a BBC Two television series in which he travelled across Britain, visiting recommended points of interest noted in Bradshaw's guide book, and where possible staying in recommended hotels. It is his belief as a Quaker that is quoted as causing the early editions of Bradshaw's guides to have avoided using the names of months based upon Roman deities which was seen as "pagan" usage. Quaker usage was, and sometimes still is, "First month" for January, "Second month" for February and so on. Days of the week were "First day" for Sunday and so on. A pre- Cold War spy, the ' scandal concert' that caused a riot in 1913, the Habsburg imperial line across the Semmering Pass, Graz, the Lurgrotte Caves, Slovenia, an earthquake in Ljubljana, and cafe culture in Italy. The fourth series aired in 2015. It took Portillo to Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, and Spain. Jerram, C. S. (1883). " "Bradshaw's Railway Guide" ". Notes and Queries. London: John C. Francis. 8 (6th Series) (200): 338. ISSN 0029-3970– via Internet Archive.

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From the Swiss Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva. Caught up in a war zone with the Red Cross and rescued from an avalanche by a St Bernard puppy. Takes to the skies in a vintage biplane and tries watchmaking James Bond style. The planned destruction of Warsaw during the Second World War, Poland's national icon Frederic Chopin, the polonaise dance; Łódź - Poland's film industry; Poznań - the last steam-powered commuter train at Wolsztyn; Wrocław - Market Square, Wrocław's dwarfs, the National Rail Carriage Factory; Kraków - milk bar and the Trabant car.The Vespa, the Spanish Steps, Naples, Portici, Mount Vesuvius, pizza, the island of Capri, Reggio Calabria, Messina, the ancient hilltop town of Taormina, and Mount Etna. The pre-war Low Countries, Brussels, the French sector of the Western Front, the forest of Compiegne, and the signing of the Armistice. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W. J. Adams of London. George Bradshaw initiated the series in 1839. The Bradshaw's range of titles continued after his death in 1853 until 1961. [11] [12] Television series [ edit ] Milligan, Edward H. (2007). British Quakers in Commerce & Industry 1775-1920. York: Sessions Book Trust. p.61. ISBN 9781850723677. He married Martha Derbyshire on 15 May 1839 and they had six children. While touring Norway in 1853, he contracted cholera and died in Kristiana (now Oslo) on 6 September, a mere 8 hours after first showing symptoms of the disease. [5] As a local law prohibited the return of his body to England, he was interred in the Gamlebyen cemetery, about a mile from Oslo Cathedral. His gravestone is on the left by the gate near Oslo hospital. [6] [7] [8] [9]

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Guilcher, G. (2000). "La restructuration du temps par les chemins de fer, le Railway Time". Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens (in French). Montpellier: Université Paul-Valéry (51): 61–86. ISSN 0339-2171. Basel, Zurich, the Alps, Lake Lucerne, and Europe's highest railway station at the top of Jungfraujoch.The Latvian capital, Riga, the Singing Revolution at a ruined 13th century cathedral in Tallinn, ice swimming, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in Helsinki, and one of Finland's 180,000 lakes in Tampere. One of the world's oldest roller-coasters in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, the Øresund Bridge linking Denmark to Sweden, Vladimir Lenin, Lund, a smörgåsbord, a Highland Fling in Gothenburg, the Volvo, and Norway's heritage of plays, paintings and polar exploration. Reach, Angus B. & Hine, H. G. (1848). The Comic Bradshaw: or, Bubbles from the Boiler. London: D. Bogue – via Google Books. (A satirical period view of Bradshaw's Guide).