There are umpteen examples in Germany, a handful in Austria, and some interesting ones round Prague with historic locos and stock (also last summer in Slovakia).
This is a rather different category from the German equivalent of Dalesrail (where I posted my comment), although it is a one-off on a route that is otherwise all-ICE (as far as Munich). There are several daily IC trains to other holiday destinations, but they are all extensions of core IC routes (Oberstdorf, Lindau/Innsbruck, Westerland...).The daily Hamburg-Berchtesgaden IC would be the German example that springs to mind, but I half recall that hasn't run for a few years. I did it end to end once, it was a long but enjoyable trip in one of the beautiful 2+1-seated "half compartment" second class coaches - yes, second class - nicest thing in DB's fleet.
The Via Rail 'Canadian' is even more in that category...Much of Amtrak outside "The Corridors" is just for the benefit of tourists. Services like Auto-Train almost wholly so.
The Via Rail 'Canadian' is even more in that category...
Much of Amtrak outside "The Corridors" is just for the benefit of tourists. Services like Auto-Train almost wholly so.
... when I went it was worked by one of CP’s English Electric ‘Class 20’ locos.
OTOH the 2/day normal trains to Kanchanaburi (river Kwai) from the old west side of river station in BKK charge special higher farang=foreigner fares for the pleasure-most Thai using it travel for free anyway by some govmt. scheme. A farang single cost 100 THB=just over 2 GBP now.
Interesting question. Ilfeld-Nordhausen (largely operated by bimode trams) is definitely "proper," the Brocken definitely leisure, the rest of the network something inbetween, but pricey by German regional standards.Is the Harz Mountain railway a "proper" public railway or a heritage service?