Queen Victoria Goes by Train
Queen Victoria travelling by train in its early days, along the Royal route to Scotland on the Great Northern Railway. The Queen's progress on these journeys was slow for she so disliked fast travelling - she objected to anything in excess of 40 miles an hour - that in one of the Royal coaches a small disc and crossbar signal was installed on the flat roof of the carriage by which admonitions on the speed of the train could be transmitted to the enginemen
Picture No
10435147
Media ID
46634601
Size
5588px x 4068px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Colour print reproduced in Holly Leaves', 1954, page 15
Date
1840s
