Features

Why Travel with PTG Tours

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Alex Bestwick

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13 June 2023

PTG is one of the very few rail holiday companies that are members of ABTA (Y2193) and ATOL bonded. ABTA
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Darjeeling Tours Ltd

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Alex Bestwick

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7 June 2023

The forthcoming season sees our popular ‘Indian Magic’ tour, covering all three of India’s Hill Railways, running as usual, and
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Holidays should be action-packed, entertaining and above all fun, agree, then read on:

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Alex Bestwick

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31 May 2023

Inside Track is a long established, independent, tour operator specialising in holidays with a nostalgic transport theme.
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From the archive: Cannon Street Station 1866-1966

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Alex Bestwick

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30 May 2023

Originally published in two parts in The Railway Magazine – August and September 1966
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RAILTRAIL TOURS: Focus on Steam – Europe & Worldwide 2023/24

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Alex Bestwick

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24 May 2023

Railtrail Tours www.railtrail.co.uk offers a superb programme of fully escorted steam tours in the UK, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and
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From the archive: Fifty years a “King”

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Alex Bestwick

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23 May 2023

In this article drawn from The Railway Magazine archive, K. S. Farr extols, at the time of its golden jubilee, the first of a great class.
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SCOTSMAN, SCOTLAND, SWITZERLAND AND SRI LANKA – step on board with The Railway Touring Company

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Alex Bestwick

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22 May 2023

Winner of the British Travel Award for ‘Best Small Travel Company for Rail Holidays 2021/22’, The Railway Touring Company applies over 25 years expertise to create a varied, and often innovative, choice of rail-themed tours.
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Ffestiniog Travel – 50 years of touring the world by train!

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Alex Bestwick

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22 May 2023

In October 1974 Ffestiniog Travel ran its very first escorted rail tour – the destination was Switzerland, and the purpose
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From the archive: A curious railway accident

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Alex Bestwick

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12 May 2023

A curious railway accident, as reported in The Railway Magazine, March 1900.
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From the archive: Stockton and Darlington Railway

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Alex Bestwick

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9 May 2023

Read this fascinating archive article on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, with words and photography as originally printed in the July 1925 issue of The Railway Magazine.
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