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NEW rail tour operator Vintage Rail Journeys is now providing “slow” travel experiences throughout rural New South Wales aboard its sleeper trains.

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Vintage Rail Journeys is a new rail tour operator providing slow rail travel experiences throughout regional and rural NSW aboard their own vintage sleeping train.

YOUR customers will love being able to unpack only once, and enjoy a 5 day/4 night experience on board Vintage Rail Journeys fleet of ex-Southern Aurora sleeping carriages. This train will be familiar to your customers - with many of them aspiring to travel on it when they were younger, or in many cases, having fond memories of traveling on board when it was THE way to travel overnight from Sydney to Melbourne from 1962-1986.

Vintage Rail Journeys have painstakingly restored their fleet of exSouthern Aurora carriages back to their original 1960’s first class styling and re-named it the ‘Aurora Australis’. The fleet includes roomette (or single) sleeping carriages, with brand new spacious shared bathrooms and no single supplement. Twinette (upper and lower bunk) sleeping carriages have a typical railway ensuite to each cabin. Two Dining and Two lounge carriages are normally included in the 380M long, 16 carriage, shiny stainless steel train. The train will normally be hauled by two vintage ‘streamliner’ diesel locomotives, and accompanied by a 1947 vintage Flxible Clipper bus.

The train is ideally suited to travelling in a COVIDsafe world - guests have their own compartments - with 136 guests spaced across 7 sleeping carriages, this train has been socially distancing since 1962!

Two five day and four night rail tours have been developed which take guests from the city and into regional NSW. A key feature of the tours is that the train is stationary at night so that guests get the best nights’ sleep possible, without missing any of New South Wales’ amazing scenery. With train travel done during the day, a good amount of time is spent at each new location. Guests will visit gardens, museums, galleries and attractions using both the vintage bus and local bus companies. Time is also spent with the locals where possible, all within COVIDsafe best practice.

The rail tours have proven very popular with solo travellers, with the roomette (single) cabins booking out very quickly.