Senior Editor David Lassen is now scheduled to serve as the Trains Magazine host on the Trains/Special Interest Tours “UK Celebration Steam Bicentennial Tour,” a 10-day, nine-night event set for Sept. 23-Oct. 2, 2025.
Space remains available for the tour, which begins in London and ends in Manchester. It includes private-car excursions on the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways; North Yorkshire Moors Railway; and Snowdon Mountain Railway, a steam-powered cog line. Also scheduled is a trip on the Vale of Rheidol Railway.
Visits to the London Transport Museum and highly regarded National Railway Museum in York, England, are also on the agenda. Additional information including a more complete tour schedule is available at the Special Interest Tours website.
The tour will take place during the UK’s Railway 200 festival, a year-long celebration of the launch of the first modern railway, the Stockton & Darlington Railway. The actual 200th anniversary date is Sept. 27, 2025; the tour will include a visit to Shildon, the terminus of the Stockton & Darlington, and its Locomotion Museum complex.
Lassen will be stepping in for Associate Editor Bob Lettenberger, who has had to bow out of the trip.
Good to know, as there are so many places in the USA that are no longer safe for tourists from other countries.
OMG. Could we just shut up with the political BS here?
Looks amazing!
Nine years ago my wife and I visited friends in the UK. We rode the Ffestiniog and visited the Snowdon Mountain Railway, though we didn’t ride due to typical Welsh fog. The Vale of Rheidol Railway was amazing and I operated an 0-4-0T at Devils Bridge terminus. There were many others, too, including the National Railway Museum in York, which is a truly amazing museum. One could likely spend weeks just in Wales.
A real festive opportunity for the Planet Earth’s rail enthusiasts!
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More good luck to lucky David Lassen!
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