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• 7 Nights Hotel 2 Nights Hyatt Place Portland, 3 Nights Lake Opechee Inn and Spa, 2 Nights Lord Camden Inn,
• Ground Transportation Private Cars on all Trains and Private Coach Bus 9/30-10/5.The hotel shuttle will provide transfers to/from the Portland airport and Amtrak station on 9/29 & 10/6
• 2 Meals Daily Breakfast and either lunch of dinner on full tour days
• Boat Cruise Dinner On the Opening NIght
• 1 Breakfast On the morning of departure
• Maine Narrow Gauge Private Steam Charter with photo runby
• Seashore Trolley Museum Private Tour and Trolley Ride
• Hobo & Winnipesaukee RR Private Car Turkey Dinner Train around Lake Winnipesaukee
• Mt Washington Cog Private Shop Tour & Steam Train Ride
• Conway Scenic A full day in private cars -Includes the pass through the Crawford Notch
• WWF Railroad Private shop tour and steam charter with photo runbys.
• Belfast & Moosehead Private Charter Rail Excursion with photo runbys
• Boothbay Rail Village With a Shop Tour
• Cafe Lafayette Private car dinner train on the Hobo Railroad. Named a top 4 dinner train in the world by Wall Street Journal
• Lobster Bake Dinner At Boothbay Rail Village
• Visit to Bar Harbor Guided Park Trolley Tour
• Pre-Tour Transportation Transportation to/from Portland. We can help arrange flights by request.
• Additional Alcohol
• Personal Items Purchases of a personal nature

Arrive in Portland and get settled at the hotel. We will provide shuttles on this day from the Portland airport and railway station to the hotel.

In the evening get acquainted with the Trains Magazine special guest and your fellow tour guests while we will enjoy a private sunset harbor cruise with drinks, followed by our welcome dinner.

First we’ll make our way to the world’s oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles, the Seashore Trolley Museum. While the main focus of the collection is trolley cars, it also includes rapid transit trains, interurban cars, trolley buses, and motor buses.

After a drive to New Hampshire, in the late afternoon, we’ll enjoy a private car excursion the famous Turkey Dinner Train which journeys around beautiful lake Winnipesaukee. After dinner, we’ll set into the Lake Opechee Resort for a 3-night stay.

Today’s agenda includes a Conway Scenic excursion private cars. This beautiful adventure will include their valley train excursion, followed by their Mountaineer, which includes a ride through the spectacular Crawford Notch.

We start the day on the world’s first cog railway. We’ll travel by bus to the base of Mt. Washington, the highest peak in NH, at 6,288 feet. Upon arrival we’ll be treated to a private shop tour. Afterwards, we will board our private car on the cog for the ride up behind steam.

Following our descent, we return to Lincoln for a special evening aboard the Cafe Lafayette Dinner Train. Enjoy a 4-course, seasonally-inspired, gourmet meal as we take in the views from 1950’s restored vintage rail cars.

We begin our day with a trip to the impressive Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway, a re-creation of a rural 2-foot gauge line that operated from 1894 to 1933 and was revived starting in 1989. Here we will enjoy a private steam charter with runbys followed by a shop tour.

Next, we’ll travel back in time at Boothbay Railway Village where over 30 acres are dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Maine railroad history. Explore the village, catch a ride on a two-footer and chat with the mechanics on a shop tour, and enjoy the model railroad village.

Dinner tonight will be a private lobster bake served at the the rail village.

Today we will drive to Mount Desert Island for a guided tour of Acadia National Park. After the park tour guests will have free time on their own to explore the historic town of Bar Harbor and enjoy lunch on their own.

We’ll begin the day with a private train charter and shop tour with the Belfast & Moosehead Railway, which travels through bucolic forests and lakes.

In the afternoon we will make our way back to Portland for our final train excursion, a steam charter with the Maine Narrow Gauge Railway.

At the conclusion of the charter we will transfer to our Portland hotel for our farewell dinner and final hotel stay.

Breakfast will be provided at the hotel and shuttles will be available for guests to transfer to the airport and Amtrak station at their leisure.

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Welcome to the world of Enthusiast Holidays! Acclaimed for many years as a market leader in the operation of tours for steam railway enthusiasts, especially dedicated photographers and video/film-makers, and those who want also to see a little of the culture of the countries they visit, Enthusiast Holidays has since 1986 satisfied an international clientele. Our programme of rail-based inclusive tours has now been expanded to include Christmas Markets, a classic winter Italian railtour, a commemorative journey visiting many places of interest and fascination relating to World War II; and a growing portfolio of special interest tours including food and drink, winter sports, opera and others in the pipeline.  Click on “Classic traction and non-steam tours” for our current offerings.

Unfortunately, in 2020 and for most of 2021, all the plans of Enthusiast Holidays, and other operators of railway tours worldwide, were thrown into disarray by the Coronavirus which effectively blocked international travel. Then came Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which completely set back any ambitions for tours in that part of the world. Elsewhere things are gradually returning to normal, and we are  resuming business in Summer 2023. 

Enthusiast Holidays celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2022, and it has survived when many others who entered the railway enthusiast tour market, have come and gone. But nobody ever said it was going to be easy! It is an unfortunate fact that many countries where steam survives, are or have in recent years been, politically unstable – look at Burma, for example, or the former Jugoslavia. In Pakistan the disastrous security situation makes the monsoons that washed half the Khyber Pass away, and a m.g. system based on Mirpur Khas that hasn’t seen working steam for years, somewhat irrelevant at the moment. Ukraine steamed its last in 2007, with all the locos. supposedly scrapped in 2008 as it was uneconomic to keep them – in any case the strife with Russia made it impossible to operate the highly successful “Dzherelo” trains like we did in the ‘nineties. However the Ukraine may be due for a comeback – see below! ( IF it recovers from being particularly hard hit by Covid, and IF they manage to defeat the Russians!)

It is because of 40 wonderful years of running steam tours to many places around the globe, that we decided to write a book!  “Gricer” is both an album of photographs – nearly 400 colour, and 125 black & white – and an autobiography of author Vic Allen – it costs £60, but running as it does to 600 pages, and given that every copy includes a USB memory stick containing the same material, but with the addition of soundbites, and links to video clips (often full length videos shot on Enthusiast Holidays’ tours) it represents fantastic value for money. Click on the image for more details!

Similarly, we have amassed quite a lot of movie material, from which we have created a number of videos, most depicting scenes no longer repeatable! Compiled over the years from 16mm silent footage, through early analogue video, and digital video up to HD and now 4K, we are gradually creating a library of overseas steam, available on DVD and Blu-Ray – click here to see which programmes you can get right now. 

Enthusiast Holidays has always striven to run tours to places where steam survives in ordinary service, augmented by charter trains only where that is no longer possible; however the number of countries that meet those criteria is virtually nil – the narrow gauge steam lines in East Germany are fabulous, but are principally for tourists and so do not count – consequently our only definite tour for 2020 was to have been Sandaoling   – the coal mine in the far west of China – a pain to get to, but the very last substantial working steam operation in the world, with its fleet of “JS” 2-8-2’s working incredibly hard and noisily – in what may well have been the last winter of their existence. We understand however that they are hanging on so we may run in Winter 2024 – perhaps with a couple of days in Tiefa, where there are 2 “SY” 2-8-2’s which we will use on charter passenger and freight trains – take a look at Steam Tours/Tours on Hold to see what we plan.

Moreover Enthusiast Holidays is embracing the growing interest in what might be described as  “Classic Modern Traction”  – particularly among enthusiasts who are of an age that grew up with it. Our first such tour was to have been to  Kenya  in 2014 – using the now elderly Class 71 and 87 English Electric diesels – but that tour had to be postponed because of the threat of terrorism. We are now once again contemplating a tour, using those diesels, and the three steam locomotives – 3020, 2409 and of  course 5918 “Mount Gelai” the Garratt; moreover we now have the chance for a journey on the new Chinese-built standard gauge line, perhaps with a depot visit, as with the TATA industrial railway at Magadi.  An unexpected extra opportunity  for a run with steam traction has been provided by the decision of Kenya Railways to refurbish the metre-gauge line from Nairobi to Nanyuki via Thika, a very scenic route of some 240 kms! 

We’re still promoting the tours in  France run by the Le Creusot 241P people – but 2019 – 2021 were devoted to maintenance, so no “voyages de vapeur”.  But as you will see if you click onto the France page in “steam tours”, the programme of short tours is now published, but using 2-8-0 140C27, a North British product of 1917. Similarly we offer facilities to take in the annual spring  Baie de la Somme events in Northern France. Italy next door operates some very attractive rail tours in superb scenery, and our new parent Company’s association with Trenitalia, the Italian State rail operator, puts us in a prime position to bring these products to our clientele, as indeed in Greece , where we also have aspirations to run some steam + “classic traction” tours, and where the national railway system is also under Trenitalia control.

Going back to our “roots”, in  Poland  one August, based on the museum depot of Chabowka in the South-East – our tour will combine  modern “classic” traction  with enough steam to rival the old steam tours programme in popularity. Keep an eye on our “Classic Traction & predominantly non-steam” category as things develop.

Enthusiast Holidays really started life in 1975 as the  Magic of Steam in Poland,  and appropriately celebrated its 40th Anniversary by promoting a tour (run by the Wolsztyn Experience people) using an Ol49 and TKt48 over 4 days in South-West Poland and which was a great success (see this still frame from the video, right.) We will be supporting others in the future. 

Before Putin’s illegal invasion of the Ukraine, we were looking at Russia , where roughly halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, a regular Sunday steam (“Su” 2-6-2) service has started on a country branch line. Not enough on its own to justify a tour, and we were looking closely at other possibilities in the former Soviet Union, including the Ukraine , which we thought was finished after the demise of “Dzherelo” – but, no, there are steam locomotives that escaped the torch, including “L”, “Er”, “Su” and narrow-gauge steam and a railway administration that seems keen to operate them for us – the Pandemic has been brought under control, of course, but the war in Ukraine goes on, and until that is resolved, we won’t be taking you there, even though, unlike Russia, you don’t need a visa to visit the Ukraine. Maybe a combined “Classic Traction/steam tour” in both Romania and the Ukraine, will be on the cards in the future – see both “steam tours” and “classic traction and non-steam tours” for details of what we want to try to achieve. 

In 1983 we operated a “Christmas Special” tour to  India , which was a great success. In those days, of  course, there was a great deal of regular steam in India and indeed in Pakistan and Ceylon). Now, apart from the mountain railways, there is virtually none – except a growing number of working preservation sites which, taken together, make a very attractive holiday! Look at our “Steam Tours” pages for evolving details of our plans for a Christmas/New year tour when it becomes possible to run one.

Of all the European countries,  Bulgaria is perhaps the most progressive in its attitude towards steam railtours, having gone to considerable trouble and expense to restore some of the most interesting steam locomotives on the Continent. There is also the attraction of ex-BR Class 86 and 87 electric locomotives, so for the end of September 2023 we present both a “Steam Tour” and a “Classic Traction” tour, the latter including the best part of a day exploring the Maritza Iztok mining complex, which uses both diesel and electric traction, and through which we should travel by our chartered passenger train, something that, as far as we can establish, has never been done before! See the Bulgaria page under both “Steam Tours” and “Classic  Traction and non-Steam tours” .

In Romania and the Ukraine ,  we planned charters with Classic Traction (CFR Class 78, and UZ “D1” diesel railcars) and visits to the remaining steam-worked forestry railways, and a steam special or two in the Ukraine. Once again, these plans will have to be carried forward to 2024 or later, depending upon how quickly Russia can be defeated, and so details are for the time being under “tours on hold”. 

Contact us on [email protected] with your thoughts, ideas, requirements or simply to get onto our e-mailing list through which we will from time to time let you know of our plans for future tours.

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Spaces open up on 2023 Trains Magazine tour of Switzerland

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September tour includes spectacular scenic railways; 2024 tour also now on sale

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WAUKESHA, Wis. — Late cancellations mean a few spaces have opened up on Trains Magazine’s Majestic Switzerland 2023 tour, set for Sept. 14-25, and limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

The 2024 edition of the tour, organized by Trains ’ partners at Special Interest Tours, is also now available .

Join one of Trains ’ staff members on the 2023 tour, which begins and ends in Zurich. It will include 10 rail excursions, among them the Bernina Express and Gotthard Panorama Express trains; a Furka Pass steam excursion; and Jungfraujoch, Pilatus, and Rigi cog railway trips. The package includes 11 nights of hotels, 21 meals, and a 15-day Swiss Travel Pass — allowing you time for individual exploration after the conclusion of the tour. More complete details, including a day-by-day itinerary, are available at the Special Interest Tours website.

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Just took this trip about 3 weeks ago as part of a larger vacation. Swiss railways in general are most impressive, but the Bernina Express was unforgettable. And I suspect the scenery at the top of the Alps will be even more spectacular in September than it was in late June. Also took the “Golden” trip to the top of Mt. Pilatus, which included a short bus trip to Kriens, two gondola legs to the summit, the Pilatusbahn cog railway back down to Alpnachtsee, and a boat trip back up the lake to Luzern. Worth every penny, a great way to spend an afternoon.

Bon voyage à la “Trains” through gorgeous Switzerland!

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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