Great Coastal Railway Journeys

Michael Portillo heads from Newcastle to Lynemouth

Michael Portillo heads from Newcastle to Lynemouth, and is intrigued to hear of its part in Newcastle's early industrial development. En route, Michael travels through the huge Northumberland coalfield and, at Cramlington, he alights to visit an extraordinary work of landform art made from the spoil of a coalmine, the vast Northumberlandia, known as the Lady of the North