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When Portillo runs out of train lines....
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howard h
23-12-2015
(As I'm sure at some point he will have covered them all...)
How's about him doing some bus routes ? Pick your fave and least fave journey he should be covering

Mine; best = 516 Ambleside - Dungeon Ghyll in the Lakes.
Worst = (amongst many) 36 Bolton - Manchester
blueblade
23-12-2015
I reckon he might have wound up the "Great British Railway Journeys" with this year's recordings.

There really can't be many more he can cover.

Really enjoyed the majority of the one's he has done, though.

Anyway, the first few trips to be shown in January 2016, can be seen here along with all the previous trips he's done.

Starts Monday 4th January.
SnrDev
23-12-2015
The H4 into Hinckley bus station (now a leisure complex I believe). It goes past a couple of decent pubs so is worth making a day of it, in the summer.
ringleaderlon
23-12-2015
He could pick his favourite Digital Spy Threads.
pork.pie
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by ringleaderlon:
“He could pick his favourite Digital Spy Threads.”

That should cover a ten minute special... at a stretch.
newda898
23-12-2015
He could do Great British Motorways - a week of travelling along one of Britain's best loved motorways!
ringleaderlon
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by pork.pie:
“That should cover a ten minute special... at a stretch.”

Hey it would take more than 10 minutes to discuss a thread on muslims or foreskins or tv ratings.
Justabloke
23-12-2015
Er.. he's not just picking his favourites at random , he's following a Victorian book.
pork.pie
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by ringleaderlon:
“Hey it would take more than 10 minutes to discuss a thread on muslims or foreskins or tv ratings.”

You said favourite threads, most of those are crap recycled shite.
pork.pie
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by Justabloke:
“Er.. he's not just picking his favourites at random , he's following a Victorian book.”

Aye, me and 'er were just saying this, there's an historic point to his journeys, could there be one for bus journeys? I'm not sure where the hook would be.
ringleaderlon
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by pork.pie:
“You said favourite threads, most of those are crap recycled shite.”

They could be his favourites we need to ask him, maybe he only views the soaps section
pork.pie
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by ringleaderlon:
“They could be his favourites we need to ask him, maybe he only views the soaps section ”

You'd think politics would be his thing, but he'd probably just laugh at all the trolling PBU's in that section. That's mainly what politics is for here... shit-flinging.
blueblade
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by pork.pie:
“Aye, me and 'er were just saying this, there's an historic point to his journeys, could there be one for bus journeys? I'm not sure where the hook would be.”

I don't think Bradshaw did buses.
pork.pie
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by blueblade:
“I don't think Bradshaw did buses.”

lol, no... I wouldn't have thought so.
bryemycaz
23-12-2015
How about Great British Former Railway journeys. Follow the route of all the lines ripped up in the 60s.
ringleaderlon
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by pork.pie:
“Aye, me and 'er were just saying this, there's an historic point to his journeys, could there be one for bus journeys? I'm not sure where the hook would be.”

What about bus shelters, which ones are still brick, which ones are the old rectangle box ones or the newer open plan ones etc.
mgbstag
23-12-2015
Become an MP?
blueblade
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by bryemycaz:
“How about Great British Former Railway journeys. Follow the route of all the lines ripped up in the 60s.”

He could do a series featuring just Heritage Railways.
Terry Wigon
23-12-2015
Maybe he could follow those esteemed historical characters, Jack and Stan, from 'On the Buses' by recreating their return route from the depot to the Cemetery Gates.

Of course, MP would have to make various stops along the way to check out the nubile 'crumpet' and preferably, scramble madly around the bedroom for an item of his clothing, discarded in the throes of passion, just as he hears the 'crumpet's' husband return early from work.

I'm sure it would make fascinating viewing.
swingaleg
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by Terry Wigon:
“Maybe he could follow those esteemed historical characters, Jack and Stan, from 'On the Buses' by recreating their return route from the depot to the Cemetery Gates.

Of course, MP would have to make various stops along the way to check out the nubile 'crumpet' and preferably, scramble madly around the bedroom for an item of his clothing, just as he hears the 'crumpet's' husband return early from work.

I'm sure it would make fascinating viewing.”

Maybe he could stop off to 'visit' Diane and have to hotfoot it out of the bathroom window as 'Jezzer' arrives home........
blueblade
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“Maybe he could stop off to 'visit' Diane and have to hotfoot it out of the bathroom window as 'Jezzer' arrives home........”

Wasn't there a rumour that Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott once had a romantic fling?
Ulsterguy
23-12-2015
The answer was shown in a previous episode. Canals would feature next.
pork.pie
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by Ulsterguy:
“The answer was shown in a previous episode. Canals would feature next.”

I did think that, but they've been quite well covered recently, but I have to be honest and say that canals would interest me more than trains... and definitely more than buses... but then Shanks' pony would interest me more than buses.
TUTV Viewer
23-12-2015
There are always re-opened routes...

I don't think he's been down to Galashiels yet, then Oxford-Milton Keynes will be opening in the next few years.

He could also probably do a series of "Great British Railway Hotels" with a 15 minute in-depth history of each hotel.
David (2)
23-12-2015
Disused routes....I am a bit too young to have been around in the beaching cuts era, but I have learned quite a bit about the shocking number of closures inc bridges being demolished (where trains bridge over roads). Many have a new life as a cycle route.

Closed airfields/bases. Loads of these around.

If he really gets stuck, there is always history of roads. So how roads have been diverted or had their route changes, bypasses, old roman roads. There's loads of roads, prolly good for many series.
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