Four Seasons with Railtrail 2016/17

Something that is personally very important to our team here at Railtrail is knowing that we provide you with great escorted rail holidays. I’m proud to say that you can if you wish support us by voting for our family company in this year’s British Travel Awards. Last year we were pleased to win Silver, but we would be very grateful if you could help us ‘Go for Gold’ this year – please see the bottom of this page for details on how you can ‘Vote for Railtrail’! Please Vote for Railtrail!

New Year just wouldn’t be New Year at Railtrail without our annual trip with plenty of steam nostalgia to the stunning Black Forest. For early 2017 we’ve got a brand new Scottish tour packed with content or the ‘White Pass’ Swiss Winter Snow Train Adventure. Alternatively, February’s visit to the Harz Mountains has half- timbered towns, steam trains, snow (we hope) and no single supplement! We spring into spring, repeating our circular tour of the Scottish Highlands and our popular ‘Flower Power & Steam’ tour to the Netherlands. Finally, some of our popular tours are ready for summer 2017 and, for a limited period only, you can book these at 2016 prices. Please see pages 14-17 for further details. Well, Jules Verne went round the world in 80 days, but I’ve just reviewed four seasons in one page! Thank you for your interest, your custom and maybe even your vote. We really appreciate it and hope to welcome you on board soon.

Here at Railtrail our holiday planners are always working a year ahead and with lots of new tours and some old favourites now open for booking right through to summer 2017, we thought now would be a good time to send you ‘4 Seasons’ in one brochure. The first few pages with the yellow banner offer a selection of our popular 2016 tours which still have availability. Admittedly it is limited in some cases, so best be quick! Due to space restrictions, we could only include a ‘From’ fare, either from the tour base (hotel) on UK tours or St Pancras International for European tours. The pages with the brown banner showcase our autumn tours. Perhaps enjoy one of our ‘rail ale trails’ or take a ‘grand tour of Scotland in miniature’ on our Golden Highlander, when the Scottish Highlands become a patchwork of changing colours. The red banner depicts our biggest ever Festive and Winter programme. Perhaps choose one of the many festive markets on offer, including the Rhine Valley, Dresden, Prague, Bavaria, the Harz Mountains, Bruges & Ghent, or Winchester, Salisbury, Durham and Yorkshire – simply the very best of Christmas Markets in the UK and beyond. For Christmas itself we return to Scotland for a grand tour with all the trimmings, or how about Christmas by Lake Lucerne, experiencing exhilarating Swiss mountain railways in their full wintry glory!

Dave Felstead Founder & Managing Director

Railtrail has again been nominated in the 2016 British Travel Awards under the category ‘Best Rail Holidays Company’ Please follow the link at www.railtrail.co.uk to vote for Railtrail Thank you from the Railtrail team!