{"id":516182,"date":"2025-10-21T05:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516182\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:11:18","slug":"britains-most-luxurious-train-to-tour-the-uk-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516182\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s \u2018most luxurious train\u2019 to tour the UK this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heritage train is set to tour the UK in the lead-up to Christmas,<\/a> allowing passengers<\/a> to wind through the British countryside in style.<\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cBritain\u2019s most luxurious train\u201d, guests aboard the Northern Belle<\/a> will travel in 1930s-style carriages, each bearing the name of a British castle or stately home.<\/p>\n

Guests will be served a festive lunch while on board, with tickets starting from \u00a3395 per person.<\/p>\n

The grand experience begins before setting foot on the train, as a red carpet will be laid out on the platform for arriving guests.<\/p>\n

Once aboard, passengers<\/a> will be welcomed with champagne and canap\u00e9s such as caviar blinis, as they take in the restored interiors, designed to evoke the opulence of early 20th-century rail travel.<\/p>\n

\"Musicians<\/p>\n

Musicians will accompany Christmas lunches aboard Northern Belle (Northern Belle)<\/p>\n

Passengers will then be seated for a seven-course festive lunch, with options including a Scottish salmon roulade, roasted white onion potage, a traditional turkey balloting plus goose fat roast potatoes and honey-glazed heritage carrots.<\/p>\n

Passengers will also be served a choice of desserts, such as spiced apple and cranberry crumble tart or dark chocolate and hazelnut delice.<\/p>\n

To finish off the dining experience, a curated selection of Britain\u2019s artisanal cheeses, Fortnum and Mason Royal Blend tea and petit fours will be served.<\/p>\n

\"Some<\/p>\n

Some carriages were once exclusively used by toaysl (Northern Belle)<\/p>\n

One bottle of a sommelier-selected wine will be served per couple. Guests can also upgrade their journey to \u201cLaurent-Perrier Class\u201d for an additional \u00a395 for more deluxe champagne and wine offerings.<\/p>\n

For an extra \u00a3195 per passenger, the \u201cKrug Class\u201d includes a bottle of Krug Grand Cuv\u00e9e champagne per couple and allocated seating in the \u201cDuart\u201d carriage, formerly used exclusively used by royals, or in \u201cGlamis\u201d, named after Queen Elizabeth\u2019s childhood home.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The seven-course, festive lunch services will take place across the UK (Northern Belle)<\/p>\n

Throughout the experience, musicians will be playing festive tunes, while the Northern Belle\u2019s \u201conboard conjurer\u201d will wander from table to table.<\/p>\n

Northern Belle\u2019s Christmas<\/a> lunch tour will start with Norwich and Ipswich on 12 December, followed by London, Coventry, Birmingham, York, Doncaster, Sheffield, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

It is hauled by a variety of locomotives, including heritage steam engines on certain dates.<\/p>\n

The final Christmas lunch experience will happen in Manchester, Huddersfield and Leeds on 20 December.<\/p>\n

Northern Belle says the journey is an \u201cideal way to celebrate Christmas\u201d and is open to couples, groups of friends or family, or even travelling solo.<\/p>\n

The luxury train company will also be celebrating Christmas with its \u201cHistoric Edinburgh at Christmas\u201d service, as well as its \u201cHistoric York Christmas Markets\u201d experience, whisking passengers away to the UK\u2019s most festive destinations.<\/p>\n

Read more: <\/strong>Sneak peak \u2013 Inside Belmond\u2019s all-new luxury sleeper train<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heritage train is set to tour the UK in the lead-up to Christmas, allowing passengers to wind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,35745,393,168440,168441,4884,168439,168438,94531,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-516182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-festive-lunch","14":"tag-grand-experience","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-heritage-train","17":"tag-luxurious-train","18":"tag-northern-belle","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115410442083841680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}