Railtrail Annual Brochure 2020

Explore Europe and selected Worldwide

Our new programme features acclaimed favourites combined with exciting new tours to a wide range of wonderful destinations to suit all tastes and budgets, from extraordinary European short breaks to worldwide adventures and all featuring amazing railway journeys! Railtrail are proud to launch a super selection of escorted worldwide tours in 2020, combining the same quality of hotels, personal service and fabulous content that have featured in our UK and European tours that have successfully operated for 40 years. Our innovative new tours to Australia, the USA and India include excellent standards of hotel accommodation, unique tailor-made rail itineraries and are all fully escorted by our experienced Tour Managers. As well as new worldwide tours in 2020 Railtrail are also offering wonderful new European tours including new Grand Tours by Rail. Our exclusive and limited-edition European Grand Tours by Rail programme continues to go from strength to strength with two new

Worldwide Destinations

tours added for 2020. The Imperial Cities features the vibrancy of Berlin, beauty of Dresden, Bohemian Prague and the grandeur of Vienna, this wonderful tour has it all! Our new Scandinavian Capitals tour includes visits Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm combined with fantastic heritage railways, steamships and palaces. We have developed a very successful range of Classic European tours over the years and for 2020 we have two new European tours; one to Lake Garda visiting beautiful lakeside towns, romantic Verona and the fascinating island city of Venice and another to the spectacular fireworks event ‘Rhine in Flames’ based in Remagen, including journeys on Germany’s oldest rack railway and the Vulkan Express.

Our Classic European Tours depart from London St. Pancras International where you will meet your Tour Manager and board your high-speed Eurostar train to the continent. For almost all our Continental European tours we meet at the ‘Railtrail Meeting Point’ – Searcys St Pancras Champagne Bar, where your Tour Manager will be on hand to greet you with a welcome drink and snack. For the first time in 2020 all our European and Worldwide tours are also available at a ‘Join & Leave at Hotels’ fare. The reduced fares allow the flexibility to travel by air or travel independently by rail and meet the group and Tour Manager at the hotel.

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