Laura ReynoldsEpping Ongar Lights Express 2025: The Fairy Light-Covered Christmas Steam Train Ride Is Back! The festive steam train puffs through east London/Essex throughout Christmas 2025. Image: Epping Ongar RailwayLondon's not short of light festivals and illumination shows each winter, but there's one that always gets our attention — a steam train covered in twinkling fairy lights. Epping Ongar Lights Express (previously called Light Fantastic) is just that — an illuminated train ride through woodland on the London-Essex border. Epping Ongar Lights Express takes place on selected dates, 15 November 2025-4 January 2026 departing from Ongar station.