Luxury train on track for Chesterfield
£700 Edinburgh trip is a sell-out.
A trip from Chesterfield this year aboard one of the world’s most luxurious trains has sold out in record time – despite tickets costing up to a whopping £700 each.
Only a hand full of single seats remain for the 1930s Pullman-style Northern Belle’s slap-up journey to Edinburgh on Saturday, May 2.
A spokesman said: “We have been amazed at the response. We could have sold out the train twice over.”
A tartan kilted piper will play a lament on the station as passengers board the gleaming umber-and-cream carriages over a red carpet.
Then they will be handed their first glass of champagne before tucking into a gourmet brunch with caviar during the trip to Scotland.
The Northern Belle – once part of the iconic Orient Express set-up – was once described by actor Bill Nighy as “the Grand Dame of luxury travel”.
And last year readers of the prestigious Condé Nast Traveller magazine voted it the seventh best train in the world.
It even has its own musicians while an onboard conjuror adds an extra touch of magic to the occasion,
Once in Edinburgh passengers will have the option of visiting the former Royal Yacht Britannia which is berthed at nearby Leith.
Then in the evening they will sip more champagne before a six-course dinner with fine wine is served during the journey home.
The train, hauled by a heritage diesel locomotive, is scheduled to leave Chesterfield at 7.45am after earlier picking up passengers at Nottingham. There will be further stops at Swinton and Doncaster.
There will be another trip to Edinburgh from Chesterfield in December, and several more trips from Derby and Sheffield during the year. For details, see www.northernbelle.co.uk