What happened to "Along Different Lines" (ADL)?

[davetheguard]

There was a time when I used to regularly travel with the rail travel company "Along Different Lines" including their very first tour starting from Oostende in a little blue railcar.

As well as several of their famous Belgian track-bashing trips, I also booked others to more exotic destinations including tours to Corsica & Sardinia; Sicily; Morocco; northern Greece; green Spain; and a couple of French gastronomic tours.

Due to personal commitments, I then dropped out of going on these sort of holidays for a few years, and the company now seems to have disappeared; does anyone know what happened to them and their owner?

And do any former regular participants of ADL's trips post here?

 

[theblackwatch]

Basically, the chap who ran ADL (Richard Peglar) retired. I seem to recall he sold it to MAV Nostalgia (in Hungary), but they didn't continue to run tours in the same way that he did. I think most would say the gap in the market has been filled by PTG Tours - see www.ptg.co.uk , or Mercia Charters ( www.merciacharters.co.uk )

 

[Gordon]

My uncle often relates to me the tale of trekking up into the Jura mountains to see a Panoramique railcar which was on an ADL tour, and having a chat with a French lineside photter about how the tour must have been organised by the British because no-on else would have scheduled a railtour for the day of French Presidential Election!