For journalists and partners
Press & data
TractionAction verifies every engine-powered day out in the UK against its organiser, every week. That produces datasets nobody else has. Journalists are welcome to them, free, with a link back as the source.
Numbers you can print
- 390 verified events, all categories
- 110 festive events for Christmas 2026
- 49 railways running santa trains
- 45 charity tractor runs mapped
- 78 counties covered
All figures update weekly; the machine-readable dataset behind them is at /api/events.json, free to reuse with credit.
Stories we can source for you
- The first complete UK map of Christmas tractor runs. Hundreds of lit-up charity convoys run each December, announced almost entirely on Facebook. We verify and map them nationally: no other dataset exists. Regional cuts available for any patch.
- Which santa trains still have seats. Our availability tracker checks every festive train against its box office weekly, daily in December: the live page. "Still bookable near [your city]" cuts on request.
- Santa train prices, cheapest to dearest. A national price index parsed from organiser pricing: the index.
- What the runs raise. Christmas tractor runs collect serious money for hospices and air ambulances. We track the beneficiaries run by run.
Embed the festive list
Drop the next-events widget into any article. It shows the next eight festive events nationally, updates itself, and needs one line:
<iframe src="https://tractionaction.co.uk/widget/christmas/" width="100%" height="420" style="border:0" title="UK festive events, verified weekly by TractionAction"></iframe>Contact
Email hello@tractionaction.co.uk for regional data cuts, interviews or anything else. Same-day replies during the festive season.