Luxury train travel
By
MERILYN CHAMBERS,
NZPA staff correspondent London Britain’s most expensive train trip will begin in May with tickets costing up to £ 2260 ($5800) a person for six days travel in the Scottish Highlands. For that price each passenger will have a private cabin and bathroom, with no more than 29 other fellow travellers in the eight elegantly restored Victorian and Edwardian coaches of the Royal Scotsman. The dining car, built in 1891, is believed to be the oldest still used in the world today. About £1 million is being spent refurbishing the coaches.
All journeys will start at Edinburgh’s Waverley Station, with the first trip on May 15. Travel programmes for the southern routes featuring Loch Lomond, Oban, Fort William, Loch Shiel, Mallaig, and Perth are for three days. The six-day trips go north to include Aberdeen, Inverness, Kyle of Lochalsh, Isle of Skye, and Dunrobin Castle.
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Press, 1 April 1985, Page 8
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