Fridays and Saturdays, May to December
Starlight Dinner Train
Three courses, lamps lit, over the viaduct after dark
The dining coach was built in 1924 and spent forty years as a garden shed before the volunteers brought it back. Now it seats twenty-four, with brass lamps, white tablecloths and a kitchen the size of a wardrobe.
The train leaves Millbrook at seven and climbs slowly while dinner is served. Halfway, it stops on Kestrel Viaduct with the lights dimmed, so you can see the stars and the lights of the valley below. Dessert is served at Summit Halt.
What's included
- A welcome drink
- Three courses from the valley's farms
- A table for two or four in the dining coach
- A stop on the viaduct after dark
- Duration
- 3 h, return
- Runs
- Fridays and Saturdays, May to December
Fare£68 per person, dinner included
Tickets are for a seat on this journey on any day it runs; show them on your phone to the guard. Refunds up to 48 hours before.
The route
- 19:00MillbrookWelcome drink on the platform
- 19:40Kestrel BridgeThe train stops on the viaduct
- 20:30Summit HaltDessert at the top
- 22:00Millbrook
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- Fare
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