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HOTEL

Midland Hotel, Bradford

Built between 1885 and 1890 by the Midland Railway

Company, the Midland Hotel was a showpiece for

the railway company’s northern operations, and is of

particular architectural interest, with some of the finest

Victorian interiors in the city. Today sees a hotel that has

undergone a transformation, with investment to all areas

of the building, restoring it to its original greatness.

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DAY 1

Arrive in

Bradford

and make your way to the Midland

Hotel, our historic railway hotel situated next to the

city’s Forster Square station. (D)

DAY 2

A fabulous

trip to the Dales

awaits today, as we

transfer first to Bolton Abbey for a ride on the

Embsay

& Bolton Abbey Railway

along the former Skipton-

Ilkley Line, which was built in 1888. We spend some

time at

Bolton Abbey

before making our way to

Masham

with a tour and tasting at the excellent

Black

Sheep Brewery

. (B,D)

DAY 3

From Bradford we take the scenic journey across the

Pennines to Bury to visit the

Bury Transport Museum

before we steam through the Irwell Valley from Bury

to Rawtenstall on the

East Lancashire Railway

. We

have time to visit the famous Bury Market before

making our way to the foothills of the South Pennines

to ride the

Kirklees Light Railway

, a 15 inch gauge light

We thought we would celebrate the steam and rail heritage of the north country with

our own ‘battle of the roses’ tour, including Yorkshire and Lancashire steam and heritage

railways every day from our base at an iconic railway hotel. With Railtrail escorting this

great railway holiday you are sure to come up smelling of roses!

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

★

Many of Yorkshire & Lancashire’s steam trains

on one great railway holiday!

★

Stay at Bradford’s iconic Midland Hotel with

dinner every evening

★

Keighley & Worth Valley Steam Railway

★

Skirt the Dales by Steam on the Embsay &

Bolton Abbey Steam Railway

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Tour & Tasting at the Black Sheep Brewery

★

Steam through the South Pennines on the

Kirklees Light Railway

★

Go underground at Yorkshire’s National Coal

Mining Museum

★

Middleton Railway, the world’s oldest

continuously working railway

★

Steam across the moors on the North

Yorkshire Moors Railway

★

Visit the fascinating Bury Transport Museum

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Steam from Bury to Rawtenstall on the East

Lancashire Railway

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Experience England’s greatest rail journey – the

Settle & Carlisle line

Fares

From

£975

railway on old colliery tracks between the villages of

Clayton West and Shelley. (B,D)

DAY 4

We transfer to

Pickering

to board the

North Yorkshire

Moors Railway

for a stunningly diverse journey in

heritage carriages to the coast. Steaming across

heather moorland landscapes, we pass by Goathland,

familiar to many as ‘Aidensfield’ in ‘Heartbeat’, before

descending to

Whitby

, a picturesque fishing port

framed by its famous abbey. Climb the steps to the

abbey or simply enjoy some of the finest fish and chips

in Yorkshire before we make the return journey. (B,D)

DAY 5

We experience the

Settle & Carlisle Line

. This

great journey climbs up through the Yorkshire Dales

from Settle, gateway to the ‘Three Peaks’, crossing

Ribblehead Viaduct

, the engineering marvel spanning

Batty Moss, and passing

Dent, the highest mainline

station in England

at 1150 ft then after the summit

at Ais Gill we speed along the Eden Valley to the

border city of

Carlisle

where there is time to enjoy

a sightseeing break before the return journey. (B,D)

DAY 6

Today we head south to the

National Coal Mining

Museum

where we descend 140m underground

to discover the history of coal mining through the

centuries. Our day then ends at the

Middleton Railway

a former colliery line near Leeds and the world’s oldest

continuously working railway that became the pioneer

standard-gauge preserved line in the world operated

purely by volunteers. (B,D)

DAY 7

Today we travel by train to visit the

Keighley &

Worth Valley Railway

where you can ride to your

heart’s content with your day rover ticket through

DEPARTS

Monday 22 June 2020

DAYS

countryside made familiar through film, the Railway

Children. Perhaps, take a break to alight at the Brontë

heritage town of Haworth with its cobbled main street

and curio shops. (B,D)

DAY 8

We bid farewell to Bradford and make our way home.

(B)

FARES

FARE REGION

FIRST STANDARD

London: Kings Cross

£1155

£1085

Greater London

£1195

£1105

South of England

£1205

£1110

East Anglia

£1215

£1120

South West

£1260

£1135

Heart of England

£1205

£1110

Midlands

£1140

£1065

Yorkshire

N/A

£1050

North East

£1160

£1085

North West

N/A

£1050

South Wales

£1220

£1100

North Wales

£1180

£1095

Scotland

£1160

£1090

£20 tour discount for holders of National Railcards

Join & Leave at Hotel

£995

Single Room Supplement

£150

7 nights’ bed, breakfast & Table d’Hôte evening meal

Rail travel & seat reservations from your Home Station to Tour Base

(Standard or First Class)

Rail & coach travel, with transfers as described

All excursions and admissions as detailed

Services of experienced Railtrail Tour Manager

Also included in your Tour Fare:

★

Dinner every evening

★

Rail travel & seat reservations from your Home

Station to Tour Base (Standard or First Class)

★

Services of experienced Railtrail Tour Manager