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Railway accommodation
Railways have provided accommodation to the traveling public since they first started, the practice was continued from coaching days, The list is initially hotels built by the railways for it's customers, most of these are grand affairs and have gradually been taken over by non-railway organisations. There follows other accommodation provided for railway customers or of railway interest.

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Hotels

 * Canada's grand railway hotels
 * Great Eastern Railway
 * Tregenna Castle


 * Category:Railway hotels
 * Category:Railway hotels in the United States
 * List of hotels of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Coaches
Railways in Great Britain provided holiday accommodation in camping coachs during the 1930-1970 period, the principle has lasted the test of time and there are some modern equivalents, such as:


 * Beaworthy, Devon.
 * Bere Ferrers, Devon.
 * Blue Anchor, Somerset.
 * Bridge of Dee, near Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway.
 * Brockford Railway Siding at Wilby, Suffolk.
 * Bures, Suffolk.
 * Canterbury, Kent.
 * Cape Town, South Africa.
 * Coalport, Shropshire.
 * Dahn-Reichenbach, Germany, converted carriages.
 * Dawlish Warren, Devon.
 * Eardisley, Herefordshire.
 * Ebberston, North Yorkshire.
 * Fairbanks, Alaska.
 * Frickingen, Germany.
 * Glenfinnan, Highland.
 * Goathland, North Yorkshire.
 * Heacham, Norfolk.
 * Hayle, Cornwall.
 * Hayling Island, Hampshire, two coaches combined and converted.
 * Levisham, North Yorkshire.
 * Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute.
 * Loddiswell, Devon. Converted signal box.
 * Merzen, Germany.
 * Mossel bay, Western Cape, South Africa.
 * Northiam, Converted coach, TOAD Brake Van & Ammunition Wagon located in the K&ESR station, Northiam, East Sussex.
 * The Patch, King's Lynn, Norfolk, a chalet with a railway carriage within it.
 * Petworth, West Sussex.
 * Ravenglass, Cumbria.
 * Rogart, Highland.
 * Seabank, Selsey, West Sussex, two coaches combined and converted.
 * Skipwith, North Yorkshire.
 * St Germans, Saltash, Cornwall, a converted 1896 GWR clerestorey roofed slip coach.
 * Tatamagouche train station, Nova Scotia, Canada, Train Station Inn & Railway Dining Car.
 * Ullock, near Cockermouth, Cumbria.
 * Undara, Queensland, Australia.
 * Wiliton, Somerset.
 * Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire.
 * Wolkenstein, Germany.

Railway inspired accommodation
Other railway based, or inspired, accommodation includes: --
 * Aberystwyth Cliff Railway Apartment, Ceredigion.
 * Akeld, Northumberland.
 * Antlers Hotel, a hotel and resort built in 1901 by the Austin and Northwestern Railroad on the Colorado River in Kingsland in Llano County in Central Texas. The Victorian structure is the centerpiece of what has become an historic railway district. Other railroad buildings have been added, among them a depot and three brightly painted cabooses setting on actual rails which have also been modified to serve as guest accommodations.
 * Bardon Mill, Northumberland, a converted waiting room.
 * Berwyn Stationmaster House, Denbishire.
 * Betws-y-Coed station apartment.
 * Broadway, Cotswolds, Bed & Breakfast in the former station masters house.
 * Cawston, converted former waiting rooms.
 * Dahn-Reichenbach, Germany, station accommodation.
 * Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland.
 * Durbin, West Virginia, converted cabooses.
 * Grosmont Station House, North Yorkshire.
 * Heacham, Norfolk. Former waiting rooms.
 * Hoogwoud, North Holland, Netherlands, four different tram conversions.
 * Kyle of Lochalsh, converted signal box.
 * Miles, Queensland, Australia.
 * Napa Valley Railway Inn, Yountville, California, converted cabooses, ice box cars and a cattle wagon.
 * Newtonmore, Highlands, Scotland. Signal box adjacent to the railway.
 * Nice, California, converted cabooses.
 * Plockton, Highland, former station converted to self-catering accommodation.
 * Plockton, Highland, bunk house in the style of a signal box.
 * Red Caboose Motel, a 48-room train motel in the Amish country near Ronks, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where guests stay in actual railroad cabooses.
 * Rhayader, Powys, a converted box carriage and an LMS guards van.
 * Roman Bridge, Murcia, Spain, converted freight wagon.
 * Rosehearty, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, described as a converted carriage, but it may have been some sort of goods van.
 * Rowden Mill, Herefordshire.
 * Saughtree, converted former station.
 * The Sidings, near York, a hotel using converted carriages for bedrooms and a restaurant.
 * Skipbridge farm, Green Hammerton, York. Converted goods wagon.
 * Snowdon Ranger, converted former station.
 * Strathcarron, converted former Station Masters house and former Ticket Office.
 * Tal-y-Cafn, Conwy.
 * Thornton Dale, N. Yorkshire, former station converted to holiday cottages.
 * Torver, Former ticket office and seperately former station masters house, Cumbria
 * Tulloch, Highlands, Scotland
 * Wilby, Suffolk.
 * Wolkenstein, Germany, former station.
 * Cliburn signal box
 * Robin Hood's Bay
 * Cloughton Cloughton Station website