The Q Train serves up vintage dining cart glamour
Stuck for a romantic date night or weekend getaway idea? The Q Train on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula has opened six refurbished carriages (once used on Queensland’s The Sunlander) for a journey that brings back a bit of the glamour of rail travel. Collecting guests three times...
Local produce celebrated in unique dining experience
For this month's Bellarine Life Lee Martin takes part in an incredibly unique dining experience, The Q Train. Join us as we have a chat with the managing director, Andrew Bridger about what makes this eatery so special. Watch the video here here ...
Experts take to the tracks for meet the maker sessions
The Q Train’s philosophy to showcase the best of the region will come into full view during their Meet the Maker sessions running throughout May. A series of four events will see the region’s best brewers and wine makers come on board the Q Train to...
Six Reasons to Visit Drysdale
The Q Train offers a luxurious four-hour, slow lunch or dinner on board refurbished rail dining cars travelling between Drysdale and Queenscliff. The six-course degustation menu is based on local producers such as beef from Sage Farm and smoked trout from Bellarine Smokehouse prepared by the...
Local produce celebrated in unique dining experience
LOCAL produce is the star of the dining car aboard a new travelling restaurant in a restored Sunlander Rail train on the Bellarine Peninsula. The Q Train opened in October last year and runs Thursday to Saturday weekly, serving a six-course meal of local food and...
From Drysdale to Queenscliff, the Q Train shows the best of the Bellarine
Not just about food and wine, at their core restaurants are in the business of delivering joy. That’s what the good ones do. You see it on the faces of the couple celebrating an achievement, an anniversary, a rare night out. You feel it from...
Q Train, Drysdale to Queenscliff brings glamour back to rail travel in Victoria
The 1970s hit Old Time Rock and Roll is rocking the Q Train's bar as we board at Drysdale, east of Geelong. And this is no ordinary bar car. As well as stools it contains a small square of dance floor, lit from above by multi-coloured...
Labor of love serves up gourmet train dining on The Bellarine
MORE than a decade ago, train enthusiast Andrew Bridger started keeping tabs on some Queensland Sunlander coaches due to be retired from service. Then operated by Queensland Rail, the long-distance passenger service ran between Brisbane and the state’s far north from the 1950s until 2014. As president...
Restaurant right on track
IT was full steam ahead last week for the launch of the Bellarine Peninsula’s latest tourism drawcard, with the Q train upper-class rail restaurant attracting more than 100 diners. The opening weekend was declared a roaring success by organisers, with business manager Marie Claire Trotter saying...
The Q Train Journey Delights
Drysdale was buzzing Saturday night the 23rd of September with the launch of The Q Train, a progressive dinner train serving a 6 course degustation menu. The menu is complemented with local produce from farms and suppliers of the region. “A true complement to the...