Many enthusiasts who were chasing overseas steam in the 1980s and early 1990’s will remember Meli – the Turkish girl who organized, and then led, our charter steam trains on TCDD metals from the legendary “Skyliner Express” of October 1983, onwards. Her determination and organisational ability when arranging the tours we ran as “World Steam...Read More

The last tours we ran to Pakistan were in 2004 and 2005, to the Metre Gauge system based on Mirpur Khas, in Southern Pakistan not too far from Karachi. Broad gauge steam had finished by that time of course – our last trip there was in early 1997. But on certain days of the week,...Read More

Liz Brooks (actually Liz Allen since 2005, although everybody still called her Liz Brooks!) died on October 28th 2015, at Gatwick, returning from a Company conference in Guernsey. She had been suffering from cancer for some years. Liz had been an invaluable part of Enthusiast Holidays since its inception (as “the Magic of Steam in...Read More