I just watched this video posted by British historian Dr. Mark Felton. Like all his other YouTube vids it's very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-10IC03YY4
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Thanks, Wayne (flintlock76) for posting that video....It is amazing that the UK can itilize a whole traoin to move the 'Ryal(? from London to Scotland as they need.
It seems a shame that it was not used to transport EliabethII to here final rest, and allow the masses in the Enhish country-side on her sloemn last journey, as had been planed .. I guess the airplane 'ride' was just a convenient , politically expeditious move? Oh, Well...She definitely was an exclamation point to the end of "the greatest generation". May she rest ion peace.
Older royal trains are in the National Railway Museum at York. The one used by George VI during WW2 is quite austere, Victoria's trains are a little more fancy but not much. The present day royal train is kept in a shed at Wolverton with a lot of security around.
samfp1943 It seems a shame that it was not used to transport EliabethII to here final rest, and allow the masses in the Enhish country-side on her sloemn last journey, as had been planed .
Sam, like me you probably remember Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965, the last portion of which was a funeral train pulled by a "Battle of Britain" class steam locomotive. The train brought his body to the area of his country estate for burial in his local churchyard.
I read there was no funeral train for Elizabeth because British Rail had safety concerns, that is they were afraid of some of those who'd come trackside to pay their respects getting run over by the train. I guess there was something to that but that didn't seem to be a worry in 1965. Anyway, it's all over.
King Charles. Now that's going to take some getting used to.
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