Northern Belle

07/10/2026

Your armchair is waiting. So are seven courses, Ch*****ne and caviar.

Christmas lunch aboard the Northern Belle. A red carpet and a steward at the carriage door, a festive cocktail as you take your seat, Royal Siberian caviar, the Great British cheeseboard with port, and the musicians working their way down the carriage while the winter countryside does the scenery.

Departures nationwide, 28 November to 18 December. £445 per guest.

Condé Nast Traveller readers voted it one of the five greatest trains in the world. The Orient Express came sixth.

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Britain's Most Luxurious Train | Northern Belle

24/09/2026

Condé Nast Traveller has published a feature on the Northern Belle, and we are rather pleased with it.

Their readers voted the Northern Belle fifth in the world in the 2025 Readers' Choice Awards, scoring 93.13 out of 100 and finishing ahead of the Orient Express. This week the magazine called our Christmas Lunch journeys "the festive bucket-list excursion for train enthusiasts."

Read the feature: https://www.cntraveller.com/article/the-northern-belle-train-journey

Christmas Lunch journeys from £445: https://northernbelle.co.uk/search

10/09/2026

Your armchair is waiting. So are seven courses, Ch*****ne and caviar.

A red carpet on the platform and a steward waiting at the door. Inside, hand-finished marquetry, a table laid for Christmas and a cracker at every place. Musicians move through the train and the countryside slips past your window. Lunch is the destination.

Christmas Lunch aboard Northern Belle. 17 stations from Glasgow to London, 28 November to 19 December, £445 per guest.

Christmas fills fast, every year. Choose your departure station: https://northernbelle.co.uk/search

Britain's Most Luxurious Train | Northern Belle

02/09/2026

A hundred and fifty years ago the first passenger trains ran between Settle and Carlisle, over a line cut through the Dales by six thousand navvies. On Saturday 12 September we do it the way they meant it: under steam, over Ribblehead, with the Eden Valley unrolling past the window and a six-course dinner arriving as it does. It is the last steam journey of 2026 still taking bookings.

Liverpool, Newton-le-Willows and Preston. Brunch north, time in Carlisle, then Ch*****ne, caviar and dinner home under steam. £595 per guest.

Book now: https://northernbelle.co.uk/trip/settle-carlisle-steam-special/1833

05/08/2026

Long before anyone boards, someone is polishing the crystalware.

Linen pressed, tables laid, the kitchen already at work. Your day starts before you do.

The only thing left for you to decide is Moët or KRUG.

22/07/2026

The best seat at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival isn't in Edinburgh.

It's on the train. A three course brunch as the Northern Belle runs north, five hours in the thick of the world's largest arts festival, then Ch*****ne, caviar and six courses for the journey home. The Fringe is loud. The Northern Belle isn't.

Thursday 20 August, from Liverpool, Wigan and Preston
Saturday 29 August, from Crewe, Manchester and Preston

From £495 per person

Book your seats: https://northernbelle.co.uk/search

07/07/2026

The best view in Britain doesn't stay still.
An armchair, a picture window, and scenery that changes by the minute. No two journeys are ever quite the same.
Book your journey at northernbelle.co.uk

Step aboard Northern Belle, one of our UK luxury trains, and embark on one of the many luxury train journeys on offer.

30/06/2026

Every so often, a journey becomes something more.

Last weekend, as the Northern Belle made its way from Manchester Victoria through the Lancashire countryside, Simon turned to Karen, got down on one knee, and asked her to marry him. After a stunned pause, she said: "Yes, yes... I will."

A second bottle of ch*****ne appeared from nowhere, and the entire carriage raised a glass to the couple from Rochdale.

Between them, Simon and Karen have travelled with us seven times. We could not be happier that the eighth became the journey of a lifetime.

Congratulations to you both, from everyone at the Northern Belle.

Plan your own journey at northernbelle.co.uk

11/06/2026

The Northern Belle is a garden in motion. You take your seat, a glass of something cold is poured, and the finest summer in Britain begins to slide past your picture window, course by course.

Here are five, of many, to choose from.

The great gardens: the rose borders at Chatsworth, the terraces at Bodnant. The race days and flower shows: the wildflower chalk above Goodwood, and the first RHS show ever held at Sandringham. The historic cities in full leaf: Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, the Georgian crescents of Bath. The coast in flower: the palms along the Torquay front, the harbour at Oban. And the high fells under steam, on the Settle and Carlisle, the line Channel 5 filmed for its views alone.

Wherever you choose to go, the day aboard is the same. A sparkling welcome, a three-course brunch on the way out, the afternoon free at your destination, and a British seasonal dinner on the way home, with the Sommelier's w**es and strolling musicians the length of the train. The view does something a view is not supposed to do. It changes county between courses.

The flowers are already deciding which week will be their best. You have only to decide which Britain you would most like to watch them in.

Sow one now. It flowers on the day.
Choose your journey at northernbelle.co.uk

11/03/2026

Summer's approaching - and it's looking sensational.

25 luxury dining journeys across Britain. June to September. Steam through the Settle and Carlisle line, explore Edinburgh, take in Goodwood or escape to the West Highlands.

Seasonal fine dining. Crisp linen. Britain's most breathtaking scenery rolling past your window.

See all summer journeys 👇
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