Welcome to Saltburn Railtours

“My biggest passion is trains,” says Rob Dallara, who has run the popular Saltburn Rail Tours for approaching twenty years.

With a team of enthusiastic volunteers, he’s organised annual four day summer train trips to places such as Bath, Llandudno and Eastbourne for up to 290 passengers. He enjoys travelling to York and Doncaster stations to look at the incoming trains.

 

Rob started developing tours when he worked with Philip Thomson to run four return trains from Saltburn to Boulby on one day in the 1995 Victorian Week. “We took a risk putting down £1000 deposit for the train, but a brass band, a magician and 200 scones made by Mrs St Vaughan of North Rifts attracted the crowds,” Rob remembers. In 2000, Saltburn Line Users Group hired a train for a day trip to Carlisle and in 2003, Rob put on a weekend train tour to Fort William.

 

So popular was this that the tours have become annual four day events in late June/early July. Rob pays tribute to the group of fifteen enthusiastic volunteers who support the venture in a wide variety of ways. “No other Rail Tour groups in the UK run a full dining service like we do,” he says proudly.