GW Travel continues to design and operate unique steam-hauled tours.
True to GW Travel’s pioneering spirit, one tour featuring haulage by historic steam locomotives will be offered for 2009.
Arctic Circle by Steam (a 14 day itinerary departing June 13) with guest speaker Paul Theroux on board is the ultimate experience for those wanting to recapture the nostalgia and romance of the days of steam travel on board the Siberian Tiger with prices starting from £3,995 per person.
Over the years some of our particular steam highlights have been:
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Steam tours over the entire distance from Hoek van Holland to Vladivostok, a distance of 7,440 miles (11,970 km).
- The longest steam hauled tour ever operated, covering 11,106 miles (17,873 km), the 'BAM 2000 Steam Express' exploring the remote BAM railway, Sakhalin Island and then returning via the Trans-Siberian mainline. In total this tour covered 15,926 miles (25,630 km) in 47 days.
- 2002-2005 the Jingpeng China Orient Express, to the last steam-worked mainline in the world over the spectacular Jingpeng Pass in Inner Mongolia.
- In 2004 the Trans-Canadian Steam Express, the first Canadian Pacific Trans-Continental passenger train for 30 years, and the first steam hauled for 50 years.
- In 2001, GW Travel restored a P36, Russia's most modern express-steam locomotive design, and the largest steam locomotive in Europe.
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