UK Royals Can Shed More Than Queen Victoria’s Train: Rosa Prince

When Queen Victoria first traveled by train in 1842 she marveled at its speed and comfort, describing the journey in her diary as “delightful and so quick.” By 1869, she was enamored enough by rail travel to order her very own royal train on which to tour the country.

A century and a half on, Victoria’s great-great-great grandson King Charles III has announced plans to mothball the royal choo-choo, after using it just twice in the last 12 months, at an average cost per trip of nearly £39,000 ($53,570). If the monarch regrets the loss of the train, elsewhere in the official ...