WARRINGTON mums can enjoy a special Mother’s Day treat in March with a slap-up lunch trip from Bank Quay station aboard Britain’s most luxurious train.
They will be handed their first glass of champagne after being welcomed aboard the 1930s Pullman-style Northern Belle over a red carpet laid across the platform.
Then a sumptuous seven-course feast with fine wine will be served during a leisurely six-hour trip meandering through the spring countryside.
Director of Food and Beverages Brian Clark, who has cooked for King Charles as well as rock royalty like Madonna and Rod Stewart, is preparing a special menu for the day.
And the train’s resident musicians will serenade passengers during the meal, while a conjuror wanders from table to table to add an extra touch of magic to the occasion.
The Northern Belle was last year voted the world’s fifth most luxurious train by readers of prestigious Condé Nast Traveller magazine and actor Bill Nighy once called it “the Grand Dame of luxury travel”.
The trip does not come cheap, however, with prices starting at £365. But a spokesman said: “It will be a day that mums – indeed all our passengers – will remember all their lives. Whose mum is not worth that?
“We like to think we are transporting our guests back to the golden days of rail travel, a time when nothing was too good for the pampered passenger.”
Mums will also be presented with a special orchid flower gift.
The Northern Belle is scheduled to set out from Liverpool Lime Street station at 11.05am on Sunday, March 15, before picking up more passengers at Bank Quay at 11.45 and Crewe at 1pm.
Then in May the train will be back in Warrington for a trip to Edinburgh and the chance to visit the late Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Yacht Britannia.
For more information and to book, see www.northernbelle.co.uk.
