Great Rail Journeys, one of the UK’s premier providers of escorted holidays and river cruises, is expanding its product offer with the introduction of a brand new Escorted Walking tours collection.

Leading luxury tour provider Great Rail Journeys, parent company of Vacations By Rail, announced it has been acquired by UK-based private entity firm, Vitruvian Partners. The acquisition will see the ...

Winding through the Southern Alps in New Zealand, the TranzAlpine is lauded as one of the world’s greatest rail journeys, but few know that its well-worn tracks also trace the path of an ancestral ...

There may have been a point, somewhere back in the middle of the last century, where the train seemed to have lost the remainder of whatever swagger it once had. The aircraft had entered stage-left as ...

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There’s nothing quite like hopping on a train and watching the world go by. Train travel is more popular than ever with intrepid travelers in 2025, not only as a more sustainable alternative to flying ...

Great Rail Journeys has been acquired by U.K.-based private equity firm Vitruvian Partners. Great Rail Journeys is the parent company of Chicago-based Vacations By Rail, a North American small group ...