This page and contents last modified on Thursday 29 July 2010
Our train is being privately chartered for a memorial railtour to Bournemouth and Poole, in conjunction with Network Rail and GBRf. Although the trip was originally arranged primarily for friends, family and collegaues of Andy Piper, it is open to all.
Full details and booking options are described [on the railtour’s own webpage]. All profits will go to charity. Club Class is not available. All seats are priced similarly, but those wishing to travel in a motor coach should mention this when booking via the above link.
Please do not contact HDL regarding bookings for this tour!
Our late-summer outing is to Skegness, Lincolnshire. The train starts at Hastings and calls at the usual pick-up points via Tonbridge and Bromley South, then Kensington Olympia and Finsbury Park. The destinations offered are Boston (for Boston Stump) and Wainfleet (home to the Batemans Brewery and its [visitor’s centre], in addition to the seaside resort of Skegness.
We have published Andy Armitage’s map of the railtour route, which is optimised for printing on A4 paper.
Motor coach Tunbridge Wells (Club Class) has just 4 seats remaining.
The adjacent DEMU trailer 60501 (Club Class) is also filling up quickly, but has 12 seats remaining.
The two extra-wide single seats in both motor coaches have all been booked.
In Standard Class, motor coach Mountfield now has 14 seats remaining, and the CEP coach has 19 seats left; plenty of seats remain available in the adjacent DEMU trailer 60529.
If you cannot view PDF files, or the above method is not convenient to you, please email us or ring 01424 812254 and we will provide further details and/or post you a paper copy. This will also enable us to gauge the need (if any) for generating a separate non-PDF version of the railtour information.
Our HDL pre-Christmas railtour is set to run to St. Albans and Bedford with a run across to Bletchley and back.
This outing would pick up at Hastings, St. Leonards Warrior Square, Battle, Etchingham, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Bromley South, and Clapham Junction. The itinerary would continue via the Midland Main Line, set down at St. Albans (4 to 5 hours if getting off there), set down at Bedford (3 to 4 hours if getting off there), reversal and proceed to Bletchley and back, break for about 1 hour; then pick up at Bedford, St. Albans, Clapham Junction et cetera.
Full details and booking information will appear here as soon as they are finalised, and an email will be sent to our emailing list at that time.
In a repeat of last year’s outing, our train is operating a special charter service from Hastings to Kensington Olympia and Shepherd’s Bush, for the London International Horse Show and for Westfield London. Combined tickets for train travel and for the Horse Show are available — early booking is advised as spaces are limited.
The leaflet provides an overview of the outing.
Fares and provisional timings are shown separately
Please use the printable booking-form to make bookings for this trip.
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.