King's Lynn promoter of steam day trips across Britain and the annual eight-day Great Britain tour, using hired locomotives and stock.
The Railway Touring Company was founded in 1997 by Nigel Dobbing and works from offices in King's Lynn, Norfolk. It does not own trains; instead it charters locomotives and carriages, mainly from West Coast Railways, and sells seats on a programme of around forty steam day trips a year plus rail holidays in Britain and abroad.
Regular favourites include The Cumbrian Mountain Express from London Euston over Shap and the Settle to Carlisle line, The Bournemouth Belle from Waterloo, The Royal Duchy from Bristol to Cornwall and a run of Christmas market trains in November and December. Three classes are normally offered: Premier Dining with silver-served meals, First Class with light refreshments and Standard Class.
The company's flagship is The Great Britain, an eight-day steam-hauled circuit of England, Wales and Scotland with hotel accommodation, now in its eighteenth edition.
SteamThe Railway Touring Company's annual eight-day steam-hauled circuit of England, Wales and Scotland with hotels included.
SteamClassic Railway Touring Company day out from Euston: electric to Lancashire, then a steam circuit over Shap and back over the Settle to Carlisle line.
SteamRecreation of the Southern's Pullman express from Waterloo to Bournemouth behind a Bulleid Pacific, continuing to Swanage.
SteamSunday steam from Bristol and Taunton along the Dawlish sea wall and over the Royal Albert Bridge into Cornwall.
SteamA rare through train over the whole Esk Valley line from Middlesbrough to Whitby, steam hauled from Lancashire.
SteamA steam-hauled Armistice Day circuit from London Victoria to Canterbury, returning along the Kent coast past the White Cliffs.
SteamA festive day out to York's Christmas Market, steam hauled from Leicester via the 'Old Road' through Rotherham.
SteamSteam-hauled Christmas Market trips to York via the rarely used Spalding and Lincoln line.
SteamA festive run from the North West to Edinburgh, steam hauled over both Shap and Beattock summits.
SteamClan Line hauls a festive train over the Golden Valley line to the Worcester Victorian Christmas Fayre.
SteamA festive lunch train from London Victoria to the Sussex coast, returning through the High Weald.
SteamA festive day out from York to Edinburgh via the Tyne Valley, steam hauled over Beattock Summit.
SteamClan Line's annual pre-Christmas run from London Victoria down the West of England main line to Sherborne and Yeovil.
SteamSteam-hauled Christmas trips to Bath's Christmas Market, with the option of continuing to Bristol.
SteamA festive trip from Liverpool to the Worcester Victorian Christmas Fayre over rarely used freight lines through the Black Country.