The combination of talented performers being silly and a sincere dedication to showing you a good time is overpowering. When you debark your 4.5 hour tour and lurch onto Victoria Station’s suddenly uneven platform to be whisked home, laughing with your new best friends, you wonder if there’s a more fun evening out….

Tickets have just gone on sale for a new immersive experience aboard a British Pullman train. Courtesy of Private Drama Events, guests will be welcomed onto the train for a glamorous evening of entertainment and fine dining. A great excuse to get dressed up…

There seems to be no end to the demand for immersive experiences, a trend that has developed in earnest in recent years…But now for a more glamorous – and unusual prospect. Following the success of last year’s murder mystery train trips, Private Drama Events and Belmond have teamed up once again...

We were lucky enough to be invited for a trip on the Belmond train for their newest feat, the Murder Mystery Lunch, which promises ‘a sumptuous lunch and plenty of head scratching’, but it achieved much, much more than that…Attention to detail is a key feature of this luxurious, extraordinary experience...

A fresh new immersive theatrical experience brought to you by the clever clogs at Private Drama Events, who’ve spent years masterminding the locomotive’s Murder Mystery Lunch, a story ‘woven from the train’s history…and even each carriage’s unique personality’...

The actors are West End-quality and the hair, makeup, and wardrobe look straight out of Old Hollywood’s Technicolor golden age — with a slight English twist...

Sumptuous, playful costumes mix period-appropriate styles with exaggerated decorative details to … quickly establish each character’s personality, from the reserved to the flamboyant...

There’s a frisson on London Victoria’s Platform 2… A man rushes by in a mustard and green tartan suit, a vintage camera slung over his shoulder. A woman, in vertiginous heels and a marabou feather stole, laughs gaily as she climbs the steps to her carriage. It’s as though we’ve stepped back in time...

Why do trains and murder mysteries go so well together? Is it the disparate group of strangers flung together? … The incriminating vignettes glimpsed through moving windows? The irresistible parallel between real-life and metaphorical journeys that both prove — da, da, dah — terminal?...

What better place to play real-life Cluedo than one of Britain’s most iconic trains? So concluded Belmond. The hospitality titan, which helms 50 properties across 24 countries and the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express has rolled out a new murder mystery experience...