Belmond Britannic Explorer

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The Belmond Britannic Explorer is a luxury sleeper train, launched in the United Kingdom in July 2025. It is owned and operated by the Belmond hospitality and leisure company, although haulage is sub-contracted to GB Railfreight (GBRf). Since 2019, Belmond has been owned by LVMH, the luxury goods conglemorate that also owns, amongst many other companies, Moët & Chandon, Hennessy and Louis Vuitton. Belmond also runs a number of similar luxury sleeper trains, including the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, the Royal Scotsman, the Eastern & Oriental Express and the Andean Explorer. The Britannic Explorer uses the rolling stock of the former Grand Hibernian luxury train, which ran in Ireland and Northern Ireland between 2016 and 2019. This rolling stock was in turn rebuilt from carriages that were used on inter-city trains in Ireland between 1984 and 2009.

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