Discover Glorious Yorkshire with Great Rail Journeys
08/11/2024 · By Rob Payne
Discover Yorkshire with Great Rail Journeys from a base in historic York. Tour York Minster, visit Harrogate and ride the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
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2025 Tour code: 25YHS
About the tour
Discover Yorkshire on this picturesque getaway by rail. With timeless towns and cities, Yorkshire is packed with rural landscapes, ancient streets, and diverse architecture, just waiting for you to explore.
After checking into your hotel in the elegant town of Harrogate and visiting the coastal town of Whitby, enjoy a journey on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway through rugged yet beautiful countryside. Uncover Yorkshire's hidden gems, discover the landscapes which inspired the Brontë sisters and travel into the steep valleys of Yorkshire's industrial past aboard the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
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Itinerary
Our Yorkshire adventure begins at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales in Harrogate, an attractive Victorian spa town with a 200-year tradition of providing restorative treatments. Popular among wealthy Victorians seeking both health benefits and luxury, Harrogate still offers Turkish Bath sessions at the Royal Bath House. Even if you don't opt for a treatment, the main attraction is the experience of visiting the baths and exploring the various heated rooms. The town has a traditional theatre, a variety of music venues and hosts several national and international events at its Convention Centre, not far from our hotel.
We meet our Tour Manager and the rest of our group at our central hotel, with time to look around the neighbourhood before we gather for dinner this evening.
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4.1 / 5 · 712 reviews
Robert Robson
Submitted 12/Nov
Very enjoyable and interesting 4 night break. Harrogate an excellent base. Hotel couldn't be faulted, food very good and plentiful. Ample free parking, which made for a stress free break. Friendly, helpful staff. Very skilled, knowledgeable and experienced coach driver and courier. Excellent value.
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C Martin
Submitted 2/Nov
I really enjoyed this tour. The destinations very interesting in this lovely county. Slightly long coach journey on one day , although I am not sure how this could be avoided. The hotel was extremely good. Very comfortable, excellent food and very helpful staff.
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J Lee
Submitted 2/Nov
The tour manager did not have up to date information on what was available for our free time or provide local maps. Unlike other Rail Discovery holidays that I've been on, she appeared to have made no effort at all to check information even when she said she would do so - she relied on her out of date 'local knowledge' as she lived in the region. I have been to the Isle of Man, Nice & Switzerland where the tour managers were excellent.
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elaine kuwahara
Submitted 31/Oct
Very enjoyable break, hotel was comfortable and spacious and food good. Itinary interesting and varied, although the day in Whitby was rushed and the museum/ art gallery was closed on Monday as were some other places so the schedule should be changed with another day. It was good to have a free day and our guide Ken Owen was very competent and kind and kept us all organised. It was good value for money and I would do more trips by train.
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Ian Falconer
Submitted 31/Oct
For me, not a product, an excellent short break. 3 dozen of us in our group: I think we gelled well together. Ken was a genial & helpful Tour Manager and Neil a knowledgeable and entertaining Coach Driver. The steam train ride on the North Yorks Moors Railway back from Whitby to Pickering was most enjoyable and the diesel hauled train on the Keighley & Worth Valley took us to the loco works at Haworth for a fascinating guided tour, as we also had when we went later to the "Rail Story" at Ingrow, where there were beautifully restored carriages. We had plenty of time to visit the fascinating Brontë museum in the Parsonage. I used the time at Whitby on the Monday to go on the open top bus. On the free day I experienced the Turkish Bath in Harrogate, which I found surprisingly relaxing, and took the bus to Ripon to look at the Cathedral, with St Wilfrid's original crypt, the oldest in England. The Crowne Plaza, where we stayed in Harrogate, has comfortable rooms. The buffet breakfast had a good variety of options. The 3 course evening meal, different each day & with choices, was always well cooked, with generous portions. The hotel staff in general and the restaurant staff in particular were friendly, efficient and helpful. I wouldn't have gone had the cost not been reduced from the original, and there was no single supplement - now I'm a widower I don't even consider holidays with this surcharge. Glad I went - so much packed into 4 days without getting worn out, and some great folk to talk to with all sorts of different backgrounds and experiences.
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Christine Matthews
Submitted 31/Oct
Wish there was more train travel, only had 2 short train journeys on the trip. Disappointed with Whitby, the open-top bus ride was cancelled, so went on a later one which meant we couldn't look around the Abbey, we had to be back to catch a train. Also, some museums were closed on a Monday. Just an idea, swop the itinerary around to accommodate this.
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