Compass Tours
Encyclopedia
Compass Tours is a British railtour
organiser specialising in excursions with diesel locomotives like the class 47
. The brand was conceived initially in 2003.
Company founder Kevin Melia, who attended school at Liverpool College, banded together with 2 friends, Shaun and Nick, some years after studying Management at UCLAN. His older brother John Melia then got involved a few years later. They run the business out of the family home in south Liverpool
. They promote the environmental advantages of trains over cars. Many thousands of passenger journeys have now been undertaken with Compass Tours. The tours are typically very popular, and usually carry up to 500-600 passengers. They have become one of Britain's main rail excursion organisers in the Midlands, North Wales, North of England and Scottish Borders.
In 2011 Compass Tours ran its first steam operations with 5 Mersey Moorlander trips that ran every Monday over August, to Carlisle via Settle.
Railtour
A railtour is a special train which is run in order to allow people to experience rail travel which is not available using timetabled passenger services...
organiser specialising in excursions with diesel locomotives like the class 47
British Rail Class 47
The British Rail Class 47, is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 Class 47s were built at Crewe Works and Brush's Falcon Works, Loughborough between 1962 and 1968, which made them the most numerous class of British...
. The brand was conceived initially in 2003.
Company founder Kevin Melia, who attended school at Liverpool College, banded together with 2 friends, Shaun and Nick, some years after studying Management at UCLAN. His older brother John Melia then got involved a few years later. They run the business out of the family home in south Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
. They promote the environmental advantages of trains over cars. Many thousands of passenger journeys have now been undertaken with Compass Tours. The tours are typically very popular, and usually carry up to 500-600 passengers. They have become one of Britain's main rail excursion organisers in the Midlands, North Wales, North of England and Scottish Borders.
In 2011 Compass Tours ran its first steam operations with 5 Mersey Moorlander trips that ran every Monday over August, to Carlisle via Settle.
External links
- http://www.compasstoursbyrail.co.uk: official website