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Welcome

Welcome to our selection of European rail holidays for 2016, designed with you in mind to introduce to

you some of our very favourite places.

My childhood holidays tended to focus on the Yorkshire coast, Norfolk or North Wales. I didn’t actually

leave these shores until my early 20s, when I went to live and work in Germany and France. That’s where

my thirst for travel came from and it’s fair to say I’ve been catching up ever since. Back then, a trip to

the continent involved the slow and sometimes unpleasant cross channel ferry. Not so now! High speed

lines, state of the art trains and, of course, the Channel Tunnel make Europe easy to reach with comfort,

speed and style.

This new brochure contains destinations close to both mine and Dave’s hearts, including tried and tested

favourites like the stunning

Harz Mountains

– a destination that left Dave dumbfounded the first time

he visited; not just by the narrow gauge steam, but also the breath-taking unspoilt beauty of its towns.

Where else will you find a tour so lovingly produced to explore the scenery and steam of Switzerland,

based in the high alpine village of Wengen, as our

Swiss Mountains Steam

.

Or the classy

French Riviera

, where we breakfast on Eurostar and enjoy dinner on the Mediterranean!

Elsewhere in these pages you’ll find tours to places that have enchanted Dave or myself through our

many years of travel.

Taste the

wines of the Rhine & Moselle

, staying with friends of mine and visiting vineyards not generally

on the tourist route…

Experience the

Glacier Express

and the

Bernina Express

on one tour – which one gets your vote as the

most spectacular journey?

Explore

Lake Garda & Venice

or idyllic

Lake Maggiore

, destinations of worldwide renown.

Visit two of

France’s great steam railways

, pay your respects on the poignant

Somme battlefields

and

visit vibrant

Paris

all on one tour.

Explore French and Spanish

Catalonia

, the Pyrenees by train, cosmopolitan

Barcelona

, medieval

Carcassonne

and the extraordinarily beautiful cove of

Collioure,

also all on one tour.

Or

stay in a Polish castle

, arriving by steam train, uncovering world war and cold war history, plus historic

tours of Berlin from a hotel built by the Soviets.

We are proud to offer you something old, something new, something bold but everything true to the

spirit of Railtrail. Enjoy reading and hopefully we’ll see you at St Pancras.

Rob Carroll

Commercial & Product Manager

Railtrail Tours Ltd

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