Forest of Dean Steam & The Wye Valley

DAY 1

We arrive by train into Lydney and transfer to our hotel in Coleford, ideally located on the outskirts of the market town, where we enjoy our first evening meal together.

DAY 2

After breakfast this morning, we travel by coach over the Welsh border to the historic market town of Abergavenny where we enjoy free time to wander around the beautiful market town discovering lovely scenery and boutique shops before enjoying lunch at leisure. In the afternoon, we will enjoy a scenic route by road to Pant for a return steam* journey on the Brecon Mountain Railway, formerly part of the Brecon & Merthyr Railway. Our journey will take us along the full length of the Pontsticill Reservoir before climbing to Torpantau, high in the Brecon Beacons, stopping at Pontsticill Reservoir on the return. We will travel back to our hotel in time for our evening meal.

DAY 3

Today we will depart from our hotel by coach heading to nearby Norchard where we enjoy a visit to the Forest of Dean Railway Museum including a private tour of the restoration shed. We will then board we board our train for a nine-mile return steam* journey on the Forest of Dean Railway travelling south to Lydney Junction and north to Parkend with stops at both ends of the line. Our coach will then transport us to Ross-on-Wye where there will be free time to enjoy lunch at leisure before our afternoon boat trip on the River Wye from the beautiful Symonds Yat.

DAY 4

This morning, after breakfast, we will travel by private coach transfer to Cheltenham Racecourse where we board our steam* train for a scenic journey through the Cotswolds on the extended Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway through to Broadway. We enjoy a little free time in this picturesque Cotswold village before we depart to the most inland port in the country, Gloucester Docks to visit the National Waterways Museum which tells the story of the 200-year history of the docks and the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal. Here we will enjoy a boat tour discovering the stories of the communities that lived and continue to thrive here before returning to Coleford by coach for our evening meal.

DAY 5

After breakfast we will bid farewell to Coleford and transfer to Lydney for our homeward journeys.

*We reserve the right to travel by heritage diesel train should the steam locomotive not be available / timetabled at the time of our visit.

B=Breakfast, D=Dinner