The carriages provide accommodation for the royal household staff ... Queen Victoria, first rode a train in 1842 — aboard a special carriage built for her and her family by the Great Western ...

There has been a Royal Train since 1842 and the current luxuriously-fitted coaches are around 30 years old. The train has already been reduced from 14 carriages to nine to cut costs. The committee ...

While the current model came into service in 1977 there has always been a Royal Train since 1842. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said it still provides ‘an effective and operationally efficient ...