The Railway Touring Company in King's Lynn aims for three golds at British Travel Awards

Published: 08:00, 12 October 2020

A Lynn-based heritage rail specialist has every reason to feel "chuffed" now that it is going for triple gold in a prestigious national awards scheme for travel companies.

Last year The Railway Touring Company, renowned for providing exceptional railway holidays, succeeded in winning gold at the British Travel Awards in the Best Small Rail Holiday Company and Best Small Escorted Tours Holiday Company categories.

This year, although it has been a turbulent year for all concerned in the travel industry, they are striving for success once again and aiming for triple gold awards by also entering the Best Special Interest Holiday Company award.

Pictured, from left, are Kelly Osborne (managing director), Jade Mott (office assistant), Hollie Kimber (operations manager), Allison Sanders (operations assistant), Rachel Jackson (operations manager), Julia Barratt (office assistant) (42621283)

Managing director, Kelly Osborne, said: "As a small local travel specialist we hope, now more than ever, that people will vote for us in this year's awards and we thank our loyal customers for their continued support."

People can vote by going to the website: www.britishtravelawards.com

The Railway Touring Company, based in the Tuesday Market Place, are now looking forward to 2021 and already have a choice of 50 exciting rail-based holidays to choose from.

The Railway Touring Company is renowned for providing exceptional railway holidays (42621374)

Destinations include UK-based holidays to Scotland, the Orkney Isles, Shetland Islands, Wales, East Anglia and the West Country. Other places to visit outside of the UK, include Switzerland, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Italy and Germany, inclusive of breath-taking scenery along with luxury private steam and electric charters.

For those wishing to travel further afield, destinations include Peru and Bolivia, India, Cuba and Sri Lanka. Its extensive 2021 programme can be seen by visiting the website www.railwaytouring.net.

The British Travel Awards is the largest awards programme in the UK created to reward the best companies in travel. Results of the awards is based purely on votes placed by members of the public.

To The Railway Touring Company this makes it a very important award to win as it shows that their customers have great appreciation for the hard work, effort and dedication put in from the whole team.

In addition to rail holidays, The Railway Touring Company runs an extensive UK programme of mainline steam trips, enabling thousands of people each year to relive the Golden Age of rail travel with a day out in the company of historic locomotives including Flying Scotsman.

Business Julie Graham, Business Editor