Railtrail New Year Brochure 2024

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A warm welcome, and best wishes for 2024, from all the team at Railtrail Tours.

This New Year update at a bumper 172 pages is our most comprehensive to date containing the widest choice of tours we have ever offered. However, our ethos of providing the best and most professional service whilst retaining all that is best about an independent, family run company remains unchanged. This image-based tours update brochure has always been very popular with our travellers and this edition is no exception with over 20 new tours to destinations as varied as spring in the Scottish Highlands, late summer in Majorca, and steam trains in the glorious fall season in eastern USA. Plus, if you have missed our new tour to Lapland, why not treat yourself to a fantastic start to 2024 and join our January departure. We have also included in this New Year mini brochure a scannable QR code on each of the main images that will take you straight to the full tour itinerary and details as displayed on our website at www.railtrail.co.uk. With new tours being added to our already extensive UK programme featuring destinations as far apart as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Harris & Lewis, we really do have the UK covered.What’s more, our tour fares give you the opportunity of including rail travel from your home station to the tour base as part of the tour package then, should you experience a hic-cup en route, just let us know and we will take over with our expert knowledge and fully flexible ticketing to guide you to the tour base. First class seating, where available, can also be included in your tour package. You can also upgrade on all our European tours too at an often surprisingly low additional fare. Sitting and relaxing aboard the Eurostar whilst speedily and effortlessly journeying from the UK to Europe is the perfect way to start a memorable holiday and, with the European countries retaining many of their rural lines, most of our continental tours contain little or no coach travel. In fact, the ‘Rail Rider’ tours to Switzerland and Bavaria are exactly that – travel by train to explore the beautiful byways and historic towns at a sedate pace. 2 2

Our ‘German Rail Ale Trail’ tour is a perfect and unique way to enjoy the wonderfully varied scenery whilst sampling a myriad of different beers in the historic towns in which they are brewed. Then there’s Switzerland, a land of majestic mountains, idyllic lakes, and arguably the finest railway service in Europe to enjoy spectacular landscapes in the most civilised manner. Discover this wonderful country full of amazing scenery on our unique selection of Swiss tours – checkout our website to see our Swiss Mountain Steam tour film, and others, to discover what our clients think of travelling with Railtrail Tours. The positive reaction to the launch of our 2024 annual brochure published and mailed last September has resulted in great demand for places. However, we are resisting the temptation to increase departures whilst also continuing to limit the maximum numbers per tour to ensure a quality experience when you travel with Railtrail Tours.To secure your spot today, our online booking system is available 24/7 or, if you wish to book by telephone, please call our friendly customer care team. Additionally, if you are not able to confirm a definite booking, they will place a provisional booking on a tour for a short while, without any deposit being paid, until you are able to confirm if you wish to travel giving you flexibility.

It gives me very great pleasure to say that we enter our 44th year with great confidence for the future and I trust that we will have the pleasure of your company this year.

Dave Felstead Owner & Managing Director, Railtrail Tours Ltd