Why this year trains will be the way to travel Adrian Bridge rounds up all there is to look forward to in the glamorous world of train travel, in the UK and beyond 9 April 2021 • 4:00pm Luxury train specialist Belmond is staging a series of summer outings from London Victoria southern England’s loveliest seaside resorts on board the British Pullman Now where were we before life took such an unexpected turn? Ah yes, trains. In those innocent pre-Covid days, trains were all the rage. Greta Thunberg had made us all more aware of our carbon footprint, and increasingly it was being said that travel was about more than simply getting from A to B as quickly as possible: that there was a lot to be said for enjoying the journey itself. Trains were clearly moving into a new age prior to the pandemic, but the events of the past 12 months and more have accelerated that process. A new age for rail travel indeed dawns.