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Relax and admire breathtaking views in North America only accessible by train journey. With 23 North America train tours lasting from 5 days up to 25 days, you're sure to find a railway carriage with your name on it on a route that will leave you speechless.

23 Train tour packages in North America with 1,332 reviews

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Via Railway Experience｜5-Day Vancouver to Rockies Railway Full Experience Tour Departure

Good tour overallAll personnel very accommodating

• 10% deposit on some dates Some departure dates offer you the chance to book this tour with a lower deposit.

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Ontario & French Canada with Ocean Train to Halifax

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Western Canada by Rail with Alaska Cruise

Good tour . But first section of the train ride was not good as I expected . Unable to see much beauty of Canda. Unfortunately I was unable to see any bears , beauty of Lake Louise due to weather changes . However we had experienced in beauty of winter .

Wonders of the Maritimes & Scenic Cape Breton with Ocean Train to Montreal

Very rewarding tour! We visited places we would probably never have found on our own. Beautiful country, comfortable hotels. Our tour guide kept things interesting and our motorcoach driver was unflappable. And we were lucky with weather. Moderate temperatures and only one rainy day.

Great Canadian Rail Journey

I really had a great time all the people were so friendly and nice .The accommodation was fantastic the meals really good and James was full of info and a very helpful friendly guy.It was the trip of a lifetime .

Eastern City Lights: Toronto to Quebec City by Rail

Western Canada’s Grand Rail Circle Tour

Spectacular Rockies and Glaciers of Alberta (Classic, 9 Days)

Canadian Rockies by Train

This was s bucket list trip. I was really looking forward to taking the train through the Rockies and it did not disappoint. The scenery was beautiful.

• €100 deposit on some dates Some departure dates offer you the chance to book this tour with a lower deposit.

Canadian Rockies, Alaska & Arctic Circle - Okanagan Valley > Banff

Spectacular Rockies and Glaciers of Alberta (Small Groups, 8 Days)

Canadian Train Odyssey

I would like to see more meals offered. Not use to locating evening meals in unknown city. Understand if stopping at place and everyone buys their own, but evening meals???? Breakfast in past has been standard.

Western Canada by Rail

Truly stunning mountain scenery through the Rockies to Vancouver with guest appearances from bears, elk, eagles and gophers! A well paced and organised trip led by an excellent guide Sibylle. Travelling in style on the Rocky Mountaineer was a memorable experience, even though we were in Silver Leaf. A class operation. A minor gripe that there was so little time at the end of the tour in Vancouver and Vancouver Island, luckily we added a couple of extra nights in Vancouver to explore the city.

Great Canadian Rail Journey with Alaska Cruise

Canadian Train Odyssey with Alaska Cruise

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We enjoyed our tour very much, the sights were beautiful, staff we well informed. A highlight for us was the optional evening photographic tour. The only thing stopping me from giving five stars was the last day felt very rushed, especially at the Banff gondola as the queue to get on took half an hour and not enough time allocated to our lunch at the Lake Louise Chateau, we had to ask the waitress to bring out the dessert while we were eating the main as we only had 15 minutes until the bus left. Allocate a bit more time for those things and you will get five stars.

Our overall experience was good, but were very disappointed by our stay in the last hotel, the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth in Montreal.

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Labour ‘will cut rail services to stop last-minute cancellations’

Labour plans to cut the number of services on England’s railways “from day one” in an attempt to appease unions and stop last-minute cancellations.

The party set out its proposals to reform the network last week, focusing on its ambition to nationalise services and introduce contactless tickets.

However, buried in its 28-page document are details of a new timetable under which key commuter and weekend services will be axed immediately should the party win the general election.

Labour promises that “a resource-led, viable timetable will be devised, agreed with the secretary of state, and implemented at speed to tackle train crew management, timetabling, and service delivery issues.”

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The move is understood to be aimed at reducing the last-minute cancellations by only timetabling services the unions guarantee will run. Central to the problem is a lack of drivers, meaning companies are unable to run scheduled services.

Sundays, which rely on voluntary overtime working, will bear the brunt of the chop. Key commuter routes in the north and southeast would be pared back.

A senior rail source said: “Everyone in the rail industry knows what that [pledge] means. It means reduced services. And worse than that, the reference to train crew means they plan to reduce services to the level the unions are willing to staff. A railway run in the interests of its employees, not its customers.”

Chopping the timetable would allow the party to claim that rail punctuality had improved under a Labour government, even though fewer trains would have run.

Govia Thameslink Railway, which operates Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern, is likely to be among the biggest victims of a timetable cut. It frequently cancels trains on the day because of a “lack of available train crew”.

The measures are also designed to improve the performance of Avanti West Coast, which has been beset by staffing problems, as well as Northern and Transpennine Express, which are already in public ownership.

The railway is being propped up to the tune of £54 million a week at present as peak passenger numbers remain below pre-pandemic levels and season ticket sales struggle to recover. However, off-peak passenger numbers, especially at weekends, have bounced back strongly.

An industry source said: “This has all the hallmarks of getting into bed with the unions. Asking them what level of service they can provide and writing the timetable to that effect. The only way to increase services would be to launch a big recruitment drive, but where is the money for that?”

Labour would not expand on what its “resource-led, viable timetable” would look like in look like in practice or expand on the pledge. Louise Haigh, the shadow transport secretary, said: “This is simply not true. Labour’s plans will fix the record cancellations, timetable chaos and two years of strikes that this government has presided over on our railways. We are clear. Labour will deliver better, more reliable and more frequent services.”

The party plans to overhaul the railways with the renationalisation of services within its first term if it forms the next government. It imagines a single publicly-owned body to run the country’s trains and track to improve passenger journeys and cut costs.

A government source said: “Buried within Labour’s pointless, unfunded rail nationalisation plan are proposals that would increase ministerial meddling and hand more power to the unions which would lead to cuts in services for passengers — taking us back to square one and the bad old days of British Rail.”

In April Transport for Wales, an “arms-length organisation” owned by the Welsh government, caused controversy by announcing it would cut its timetable to increase “resilience” and balance services with the available budget. Rail services in Scotland are run by a similar arms-length body and in Northern Ireland they are run by Stormont.

Andy Bagnall, the chief executive of Rail Partners, a lobby group, said: “Over time, the increased costs to the taxpayer of nationalisation because of the loss of commercial focus from private train companies will lead to either reduced train services or increased subsidy.

“That means rail competing for funding with other public services like the NHS. Historically, British Rail often lost this battle.”

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