One of BBC2’s longest running programmes will feature Cumbria next week.
Great British Railway Journeys visits the county and presenter Michael Portillo will spend time right across the area in the series, which is on BBC Two from Monday to Friday.
He visits Egremont, Ulverston, Windermere, Ullswater, Ambleside, St Bees, Carlisle, Aspatria, Grange-over-Sands, Maryport, Keswick and Penrith, among other locations.
He visited Sellafield as part of the series, and that tour will be shown on Monday, April 14.
During the episode, he jumps onto one of the site’s locomotives to visit the Fuel Handling Plant, which receives and stores used fuel from nuclear power stations around the country.
The Sellafield segment was filmed in July last year and brought Portillo back to a site he has visited many times as a broadcaster and a minister in Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s.
Kate Stinton, Sellafield Ltd communications and stakeholder engagement director, said: “We’re so proud of the role we play in supporting the UK’s energy sector through spent fuel receipts and waste management.
“It was a pleasure to welcome Great British Railway Journeys onto site to meet our brilliant teams who expertly carry out this important work every day.
“Like so many UK industrial sites, railways have played an important but sometimes unheralded role in Sellafield’s development.
“They are the glue that holds together so many of our plants and operations. It’s fantastic to see the team showcased on a national stage.”
During the episodes he visits the First Milk creamery in Aspatria, Lowther Castle near Penrith, Florence Mine near Egremont and Carlisle Castle among other places.
The episodes are broadcast at 6.30pm daily and will be available on BBC iPlayer after broadcast.
