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Michael Portillo will ‘celebrate 200 years of railways in Britain’ with BBC show
The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway on September 27 1825 is credited as being the birth of the modern railway, and north-east England is set to be one place Portillo will travel to for the new programme. The former Tory government minister …