Author: Simon Perry / Source: PEOPLE.com
All aboard!
On Wednesday, Meghan Markle becomes the first of the younger generation of royals to score a ride on the royal train for an official outing with Queen Elizabeth.
The train has been called an exclusive “palace on wheels,” but when Meghan, 36, steps aboard tonight for her journey to Cheshire alongside the Queen, she will find it very different from the castles and palaces she has already experienced in her short time as a royal.
Although it doesn’t have quite the same degree of luxury, the train is preferred by the Queen, 92, and other senior royals because it is a home-away-from-home — complete with an office, sleeping quarters and dining areas.
The nine burgundy carriages currently in use date from the Queen’s Silver Jubilee of 1977. Those carriages replaced others that first came into service in 1941.
The carriages provide accommodation for the royal household staff, railway staff and police personal protection officers. There is space for communication equipment and its own electric supply, author Brian Hoey writes…
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