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City Search helps visitors find heritage railways from the places they actually live, work or travel from.
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About Rail Away Days
Helping People Find Brilliant Railway Days Out
Rail Away Days is a UK guide for discovering heritage railways, steam train rides, family railway trips, railway gift ideas and bookable train experiences.
We help visitors start with the question they usually ask first: “what railway days out are near me?” From there, City Search, railway guides and experience pages help them choose where to go next.
What Rail Away Days does
We bring railway discovery, local search and experience-led planning into one place.
Railway guides
Our railway pages bring together useful visitor information, map locations and onward links for planning a day out.
View RailwaysGift and experience routes
For visitors looking to buy, we highlight railway gift ideas, train driving experiences and bookable heritage railway products.
Find Railway GiftsStart with your city
Use City Search to find heritage railways near your town or city, compare nearby lines and open the right railway guide before you travel.
How visitors use the site
Rail Away Days is built around a simple route from curiosity to confident planning.
SearchStart with a city, railway name or experience type.
CompareLook at nearby railway options, route character and visitor appeal.
PlanOpen the railway guide and check the official operator information before travelling.
Book or giftWhere available, follow direct links to saleable railway experiences and gifts.
For heritage railways and experience providers
Rail Away Days is also designed to help the right visitors find the right railway product.
If you run a heritage railway, railway museum, special event, footplate experience, driver experience, dining train, family attraction or railway gift product, Rail Away Days can help put that offer in front of people already looking for railway days out.
Our City Search structure means a railway does not only appear to people searching for its name. It can also appear to visitors starting from nearby towns and cities, family-day-out searches, gift searches and experience-led pages.
For families and visitors
Find heritage railways near your home town, compare nearby options and discover family-friendly train days out across the UK.
Family Days OutFor gifts and special occasions
Explore railway gifts, train driving experiences and memorable days out for birthdays, anniversaries, couples and railway enthusiasts.
Railway Gift ShopRail Away Days helps visitors discover heritage railway days out and experience ideas. Always check the official railway or provider website for current timetables, prices, availability, accessibility, travel information and event dates before setting off or buying an experience.