Palin's first travel documentary was episode 4 of the 1980 BBC Television series "Great Railway Journeys of the World", entitled "Confessions of a Trainspotter". Throughout the hour long show, Palin humorously reminisces about his childhood hobby of train spotting while he travels throughout the UK by train from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness. He rides vintage railway lines and trains including the "Flying Scotsman". At the Kyle of Lochalsh, Palin bought the station's long metal platform sign and is seen lugging it back to London with him.