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Great British Railway Journeys BBC2 BOARDING the 3.15pm to Bognor, it would give you a bit of a turn to find Michael Portillo queuing for a sausage roll at the buffet. "What next?", you might wonder. Mrs Thatcher as the ticket collector? Norman Tebbitt on the whistle? Michael Heseltine trapped in the lavatory? But Portillo, pictured below right, has undergone a remarkable transformation. Nigh on 13 years ago, his downfall at the 1997 General Election was widely seen as one of the TV highlights of the decade.
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Portillo Back On Track with Trains
And yet now he has replaced another MP, Michael Palin, as perhaps the nation's most foremost travel companion. Genera...
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