Days out & breaks across Britain
Our days-out guides start with what’s free, then only what’s worth paying for, and end with exactly how to get there.
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Free and cheap days out with children, each planned from the station platform.
The main line to get you there, and a heritage railway that is the day out.
Everything about days out by train
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The National Railway Museum is free and sits next to the station, which makes York close to the perfect day out by train with…
Read the guideKelvingrove and the Riverside Museum are both free and both brilliant, and that is before you reach the parks.
Read the guidePentire sits at Newquay. Here is what the park is near, and the local attraction worth building a day around.
Read the guideSand le Mere sits at Tunstall, Holderness coast, East Yorkshire. Here is what the park is near, and the local attraction worth building a…
Read the guideFifty years of escorted rail tours, river cruises and luxury train holidays, run from York, with no single supplement on selected solo departures.
Read the guideThe Glacier Express, the Orient Express, the Shinkansen, the Arctic Circle, India and the Canadian Rockies - which one to pick and why.
Read the guidePhotos: LMS Coach, National Railway Museum, York by Gene Hunt, CC BY 2.0; The Kelvingrove art gallery and museum (Glasgow) by dalbera, CC BY 2.0; Morning light at Fistral Beach in Cornwall. by Thomas Tolkien, CC BY 2.0; Withernsea lighthouse (4451523751) by Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0; Andermatt - Glacier Express by Kecko, CC BY 2.0; Jacobite on Glenfinnan Viaduct 2 20211024 by Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0
Every Park Holidays UK park, each with a day out nearby already planned.
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