Inside Track Railway Holidays

22/10/2026

🎉 WHO SAYS THE PARTY HAS TO END ON 1ST JANUARY?

Ours is only just getting started! 🚂🥂

Our New Year specials are normally reserved for existing customers… but this year, we’re throwing open the doors and inviting YOU to join the fun!

🦉 HOGG-MANY HOOT HEADS EAST!
📍 Norwich | 3rd–6th January 2027

Fancy a railway holiday with a wonderfully mischievous twist? Join Inside Track for steam, sparkle and a generous helping of New Year nonsense!

🚂 Steam on the North Norfolk Railway with mince pies and festive lights
🌿 Charming branch lines, windmills and Broads views
🍽️ Lunch at Somerleyton Hall
🎶 A Scottish banquet, music, dancing and the famous ‘address to the Haggis’
🏰 Norwich’s history, Castle and City of Norwich Museum
🚃 Train rides at the Whitwell and Reepham Railway
🎬 A mystery cinematic treat… we can say no more!
⛴️ A relaxing Broads cruise with lunch

And your base for all this fun? The beautiful 4-star Dunston Hall Hotel & Spa, a Victorian mansion set in lovely grounds. ✨

💷 £989 per person
Includes three lunches, dinner, bed, breakfast and banquet, plus the activities described above.
Single occupancy of a double room: £40 supplement per night.
The holiday starts and finishes in Norwich.

Come for the railways, join in the celebrations and start 2027 in style. It’s going to be a hoot! 🎉

👉 Book here:
https://railwayholidays.com/booking-form/?id=3887

Please select a holiday, when you find what you are looking for, press the Book Now button.

22/10/2026

Monday for Black, White and Gold was the big Swiss day - there was low cloud and even rain as we made our way by SNCF and SBB to Lucerne and a chance to walk the Chapelbrücke before taking to Lake Lucerne on one of the newest boats cruising it's waters.

At Vitznau, it was time to switch to the Rigibahn and our own chartered saloon with our great friend as host. She assured us that the low cloud was exactly that and soon we passed through in the cloud as we climbed - then the mist brightened, began to glow and we burst into brilliant, Alpine sunshine and an amazing new world with clear visibility for many kilometres, shining mountain peaks with the promised white snow and ice in valleys and dips and a sea of mist hanging in the valleys.

We had about an hour at the Summit, where the Rigibahn's vertical boiler locomotive No. 7 now has its own display when not in use. We then descended back through the clouds by the other Rigibahn line to Arth Goldau to catch the train back to Lucerne.

An early evening meal was taken at the ancient Inn The Wilden Mann, which was excellent as ever, before retracing our steps by rail back to Colmar after a splendid day.

20/10/2026

Sunday started for the Black, White and Gold with a train ride - on a road, or "Dotto" train - around historic Colmar to an excellent and informative commentary.

Next, a more conventional train and a tram took to the massive and impressive French National Railway Museum in Mulhouse. This massive site houses a huge and varied collection but also was hosting a wedding fair during our visit.

Then it was back into Germany for the lovely Kandernthalbahn - vintage steam in a late 19th Century gas lit coach!

20/10/2026

Black White and Gold private charter on the Chemin de Fer Forestier d'Abreschviller.

19/10/2026

Saturday saw the Black, White and Gold head for the Black Forest, pausing en route at the Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line. At Offenburg, we joined the Deutsche Bahn Black Forest Railway to Villigen where we had to switch to our coach for a short break in Donaueschingen, home of the source of the Danube.

Our afternoon was spent first on the spectacular Pigtail Railway, ending with an amazing photo opportunity! We then made our way to Neustadt (Schwartz) for a train ride on the Höllentalbahn, Germany's steepest mainline railway, to Freiburg before heading home to Colmar.

18/10/2026

Black, White and Gold on the Kandernthalbahn in Germany.

18/10/2026

"Well, Albert, all I know is - you're the driver - you can explain to the Shed Master where the rest of this loco disappeared too......"

18/10/2026

On Friday evening, the Black, White and Gold travellers went to an amazing live show at the Train Thur Dollar in Alsace - they are celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year and for well over half that time have been great friends of Inside Track Railway Holidays. Their birthday celebrations were a 2 hour live theatre production with real trains called "The Train goes to the Cinema", in which inventor of the movie camera August Lumiere is taken on a journey through cinema history by Doc Brown of Back to the Future! It was incredible! See how many movies you can spot in the pictures.

17/10/2026

Black (Forest), White (Rain?) and Gold (Trees!) on the Pigtail Railway at Epfenhofen Viaduct.

17/10/2026

Our first full day in France on the Black, White and Gold was spent quite locally in Alsace. We started with the scenic branchline to Metzeral before meeting our coach for the stunning drive to (near) her summit of the highest point of Alsace - the Grand Ballon - car park higher than Ben Nevis! On this drive, we could see the hills of the Black Forest, the Gold of Autumnal Alsace and the White of snow on the Swiss Alps.

We came out of the Vosges Mountains to lunch in beautiful Eguisheim before continuing through the vineyards to equally - but differently - beautiful Riquewhir for further exploration and refreshments before returning to the hotel for a chance to freshen up and then an early evening meal ready for our evening's entertainment!