A steam engine pulling a luxury train which charges passengers tickets up to £3,575 per trip is travelling through Wales on Sunday. The Great Britain XV left London's Paddington station on Saturday.
It was due to steam into Wales on Sunday and will be here until Tuesday. It left Bristol Temple Meads on Sunday morning, joining the the South Wales main line and passing through the Severn Tunnel towards Newport before heading north through Abergavenny, the Marches and on to Wrexham, Llandudno, Bangor and Holyhead.
It will return to Llandudno on Monday for the day before leaving Wales on Tuesday. The train's trip through England, Scotland and Ireland has been organised by the Railway Touring Company, North Wales Live reports, and passengers are paying quite the premium to enjoy the holiday.
The best tickets - labelled the 'Premium Price' - come with a price tag of £3,575 per passenger, and that's only based on two people. A single-supplement will cost you a further £395 on top of that while there's also an option to spend more for a guided excursion of Aberdeen when the train pulls into Scotland, at a cost another £299 per person.
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The Premier Price plan comes with eight nights of hotel accommodation and breakfast in either 3* or 4* hotels, coach transfers, luggage transfers (from hotel to hotel), an allocated seat in the first class open carriage, an 'at-seat' drinks service and six breakfasts, four lunches and four 'silver service' dinners while on the train.
There is a slightly cheaper option, with 'first class' trip tickets costing £2,765. And if you can't afford any of that, you might have to settle for waving the passengers goodbye from Llandudno Junction station as the train departs Wales later this week. Described as a must for train enthusiasts and steam engine buffs alike, the Railway Company says the tour trip will take passengers from the "flat Fens to the Suffolk coast, from the rugged Welsh coastline to the soaring summits of Scotland".
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