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bdy26 wrote:Or 87004. Or a 47. In fact anything other than a 67

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Royal Duff,Just look at that signal gantry,loosed count the amount of times I have traveled under that in the 70's,All gone now

http://www.railbrit.co.uk/images/16000/16492.jpg


There is a picture somewhere ? of HRM "cabbing it" in a class 87 at the Start of Electric Scot era in 1974 Weaver junction to Glasgow.

Wonder if ever a Deltic was used on Royal Train,cant remember it was so long ago

or even better A4 Royal Haulage

MARTIN

That's all well and good, except for the Diamond Jubilee I don't think the Royal Train will be hauled by anything other than a 67 (although surely a Jubilee would be appropriate?)

A4 royal train. You mean like the one on this page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Train

bdy26 wrote:Or 87004. Or a 47. In fact anything other than a 67

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How about 87018 Preston 1974....

http://www.prestonstation.org.uk/photoa ... p?pid=1703

http://www.derbysulzers.com/royaltrain.html

Merlin75 wrote:A4 royal train. You mean like the one on this page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Train

Yes,thanks Merlin75


MARTIN

One (possible) intresting point about the Royal train is thatt the drivers are specially chosen based on their skill. One such ability required by the drivers is to make a station stop within six inches of a designated position.

Intrestingly, the royal train has been hauled by Duchess of Sutherland, King Edward I and Tornado.

45002 wrote:Wonder if ever a Deltic was used on Royal Train,cant remember it was so long ago

Yes. You could always tell the ones which had been used on Royal trains as they have a small circular blanking plate fixed to the front of their noses. This was to cover the hole where a communication cable was routed.

jivebunny wrote:

firetrap1 wrote:Does the Queen use this train as a form of transport? I was under the impression only the Princes and the Duke used it.

She does use it although it's been a good ten years since she last did IIRC. Recently she's preferred the more humble Class 165:





JB

"What do you mean, SBHH, what does one mean" Something bad has happened Ma,am
Regards
Kev

jivebunny wrote:

Despite repeatedly shouting "Do you know who one is" the fare dodger was removed from the train by staff at the next station.

Dave4468 wrote:

jivebunny wrote:

"Yes,Your Majesty, I can assure you that our London to Brighton add-on will have third rail."

Len

connorurry wrote:One (possible) intresting point about the Royal train is thatt the drivers are specially chosen based on their skill. One such ability required by the drivers is to make a station stop within six inches of a designated position.

Intrestingly, the royal train has been hauled by Duchess of Sutherland, King Edward I and Tornado.

Was also hauled earlier this year by Britannia...

bdy26 wrote:Or 87004. Or a 47. In fact anything other than a 67

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This?

Railworks 3 with ER Queeny II addon.

From the RW website;

...Royal Claret Mk1 and Mk2 coaches...

Isn't the Royal Train made up of a few Mk2 generator coaches and the rest are Mk3s of varying flavours?

There are mark 3s in the photos that have been posted so far, so is either a typo or a mark 1 is used as a luggage van perhaps? (I doubt there's a guard/conductor! )

The current Royal Train is made up of Mk3s and Mk2s, yes. But these kind of errors aren't exactly uncommon in RS.com's announcements, unfortunately.