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Rails, Dales and North East Tales

  • The Town at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North

    Durham & Beamish The Town at Beamish
  • Durham City ©Visit County Durham

    Durham City, County Durham
  • Durham Castle ©Visit County Durham

    Durham Castle, County Durham
  • Locomotion - National Railway Museum ©Visit County Durham

    Locomotion - National Railway Museum, Durham, County Durham
  • Locomotion - National Railway Museum ©Visit County Durham

    Locomotion - National Railway Museum, Durham, County Durham
  • Locomotion - National Railway Museum ©Visit County Durham

    Locomotion - National Railway Museum, Durham, County Durham
  • The World of James Herriot Musuem

    World of James Herriot
5 day tour
From £359 per person - minimum 20 passengers

Step back in time with this fascinating look at how things used to be in north east England. We visit remarkable Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, and Locomotion, part of the National Railway Museum. We take a ride on the Wensleydale Railway into the Yorkshire Dales, and spend time in the historic city of Durham. We also visit the World of James Herriot.

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Dates

Dates throughout 2024 & 2025


Suggested itinerary by coach

Day 1

Travel to your hotel

Day 2

Wensleydale Railway and World of James Herriot

This morning, we travel south to Leeming Bar for a relaxing ride on the Wensleydale Railway through the rolling countryside to Leyburn. This afternoon, we visit the World of James Herriot, the original home of All Creatures Great and Small.

Day 3

Beamish

Today we visit Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, a living, working museum, set in 300 acres of beautiful Durham countryside. Trams rattle along the cobbled streets and costumed folk bring to life how things were in north east England in the 1820s,1910s and 1940s. But what makes Beamish rather special are the buildings. They’re not replicas, but have been brought, brick by brick, from around the region and rebuilt to give visitors a real sense of history.

Day 4

Durham and Locomotion

This morning there’s free time in Durham, a captivating city with winding cobbled streets and a prominent peninsula crowned with the dramatic Durham Cathedral and Castle UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the afternoon we visit Locomotion, part of the National Railway Museum with more than 70 locomotives and other railway heritage vehicles on display.

Day 5

Return home

If you’re travelling south, why not visit historic York.


Greatdays offer a selection of quality hotels in County Durham.


Dates 5 days / 4 nights 
2024 dates Prices available on request
2025 dates From £359.00 per person

Single room supplement available upon request.

All prices are per person based on sharing a double or twin room and with one free place for a coach driver or group organiser in a single room, both are based on a minimum 20 full fare paying passengers. Prices do not include coach hire or travel insurance. Dates are subject to availability. Smaller groups can be quoted for on request. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. Our website policy is to use only copyright free images or images which have been authorised to us for free use by the owner. If you consider an image to be unauthorised or to be your property, please contact us immediately and if invalid we will have the image removed. If your image requires crediting or is missing a copyright statement then we will be pleased to add this to the webpage, contact us at info@greatdays.co.uk

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