Railtours
This page and contents last changed on Monday 20 January 2025
Plans for future railtours
Thank you for supporting our railtours.
Details of, and booking-instructions for, our future railtours will appear here when they are available; when that happens, those on our emailing list will receive notifcation.
Possible dates for your diary (updated 13 November 2024)
5 April 2025: to Bicester and Oxford?
17 May 2025: possibly to the Bluebell Railway?
21 June 2025: possibly to the Norwich area?
20 September 2025: possibly to Warwickshire?
These outline plans are unavoidably subject to cancellation, modification or change of date (except where stated to the contrary), until a trip is properly advertised.
No bookings or reservations will be accepted for any outing shown in this panel, unless you have received a letter, a flyer, or an email from HDL pre-advertising a particular trip. This is to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to make bookings.
Further information and resources
Code of Conduct
It is a condition of holding a ticket for any outing on our train that passengers abide by the letter and spirit of our Code of Conduct (updated May 2023).
Leaning out of windows
We continue to endeavour to keep our passengers safe by not allowing them to lean out of our train’s windows. This notice (updated January 2021) contains further information.
Booking Conditions
By travelling on an HDL railtour or buying a ticket to do so, you are deemed to be accepting our Booking Conditions as well as our Code of Conduct.
Accessibility Policy
HDL’s 1950s-built train may pose difficulties to certain classes of user: our Accessibility Policy describes what these are and how they may affect users.
Folding bicycles
It may be possible for you to bring your folding bicycle on the Hastings DEMU, with prior written approval; our guidelines on carriage of folding bikes will help you to determine your bike’s suitability for carriage.
Railtour Archive
We can recommend a dip into the HDL Railtour archive, which contains details of all the previous “days out” which HDL has operated to date; you may also find interesting our YouTube Channel which contains 32 cab-ride videos featuring outings during 2016–18.