Friends of the Rail Forum

If there’s one thing more exciting than taking a journey from a great London train station, it’s spending the night before that journey in the station hotel. Their decor and sense of grandeur whisks you back to the heady days of early train travel – where a porter would whisk your suitcases away through the steam and you’d watch the world flash by the window from the comfort of your own compartment. Those sorts of train journeys might be long gone but there’s still a real magic in walking straight to your train from the hotel, an extra touch of luxury in not having to battle the traffic or the Tube to get there in the first place. Just savour your breakfast, amble a few yards and off you go. Here’s our guide to the capital’s railway hotels …