All aboard for Britain’s historic railway hotels

Britain’s beautiful and historic railway station hotels provide a chance to relax amid the grandeur of a bygone era. Take a look at the loveliest.

webBooking-Office — The Booking Office Bar at St Pancras hotel, London

St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London

Formerly known as the Midland Grand Hotel, George Gilbert Scott’s neo-Gothic masterpiece is newly restored and is so timelessly lovely it’s been used as a Harry Potter film location.

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Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow

Winner of Bar of the Year and a Gold Laurel Award at the 2015 Scottish Hotel Awards. Recently redeveloped, the designers trod a careful line between recreating 19th-century style and obvious modernisation.

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The Midland Hotel, Morecambe

This Art Deco outpost looks out across the Lancashire seafront to the Lake District fells and was designed in 1932 with no expense spared. A destination in itself, it attracted the fabulous and fashionable.

The Royal York hotel, York — The Garden Room at the Royal York hotel, York

The Principal York, York

The hotel’s greatest triumph was – and still is – a huge garden with lawns, hedges, flowerbeds and an ornamental fountain, which has a footprint twice that of the hotel. Book a junior suite for the chance to enjoy views of historic York Minster.