Royal train at Penzance today

[ACE1888]

Arrived around 10.00am, departed empty at 10.25am, The Queen (Gawd Bless 'er!) was visiting the Isles of Scilly today...

After arrival at Platform 4, 67005 nearest camera, 67006 was on the 'blocks'

 

[NSE]

Excellent, does look rather swish.

I have heard, don't know if its true, but are the drivers selected from a chosen few as they have to be able to stop the train with like 3 inches of a given point. So that her carriage matches up with security and what have you?

 

[western Champion]

It tends to be the golden boys, usually instructors, and a squeaky clean safety of the line record.

 

[DarloRich]

everyone involved with that train is the sqeakyiest of squeaky clean ( as it should be!) That includeds everyone from the cleaner to the driver and all points in between

 

[ACE1888]

67006 at the other end, on heading out of Penzance, just for those who may liked to have seen what was on the other end!

 

[4SRKT]

Doesn't the Queen get tired of getting the same two skips all the time? Do you reckon she sees them and says "God, not 5 and 6 again. I still require 28 others to clear the class for haulage".

 

[ACE1888]

Doesn't the Queen get tired of getting the same two skips all the time? Do you reckon she sees them and says "God, not 5 and 6 again. I still require 28 others to clear the class for haulage".

classic indeed....

 

[4SRKT]

Although I suppose if anyone can get any loco she wants working a train, it's the Queen. Which begs the question why she doesn't have deltics. Or pay for 40145 to get repaired so she can have that.

 

[sonic2009]

What is actually the consist of the royal train. i.e what does it have in it?

 

[4SRKT]

what does it have in it?

The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, some butlers, sundry other flunkies, lots of expensive grub.

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Doesn't the Queen get tired of getting the same two skips all the time? Do you reckon she sees them and says "God, not 5 and 6 again. I still require 28 others to clear the class for haulage".

It's "One still requires the other 28 for one's haulage. One also likes some good tonez". I heard her say that once. Honest!

 

[Hydro]

We've got an old Mk2a/b that used to be an escort coach for the Royal Train. Sleeping compartments, bog, a decent kitchen and a guards area, with a BTP crest on one of the compartments, so I imagine it was the security officers accomodation coach. It's all wood panelled inside. A bit dated looking now mind.

 

[DarloRich]

still better than a pendo or a voyager!

 

[Dreadnought]

Doesn't the Queen get tired of getting the same two skips all the time? Do you reckon she sees them and says "God, not 5 and 6 again. I still require 28 others to clear the class for haulage".

I thought a number of the other 28 have worked the Royal Train in the past especially before 5 & 6 became the dedicated locos. I also seem to remember that another skip took over in Scotland (19 I think) in the last few months due to a fault with one of the usual 2.

 

[4SRKT]

Hard to imagine what the Queen would make of riding on a Voyager. Crammed into a seat over the rough-riding bogie, with a scruffy oaf on the cheapest advance ticket in the next seat, next to the toilet on the Penzance > Aberdeen from which she's bailing at Montrose for Balmoral, with 12 or so hours of accumulated commoner's plop in the festering retention tank, and the buffet car having long since run out of quail's eggs and peacock's tongues, and now having to make do with a mini tube of Pringles.

She might wonder if all aspects of commoners' lives are like this.

 

[Turbostar]

You sure she's not up at the locos, with her white gloves, & seeing how clean they are??? Can just imagine her routine check, "One is not amused at the condition of this loco, see to it it's cleaned when we get back." lol

 

[DarloRich]

Hard to imagine what the Queen would make of riding on a Voyager. Crammed into a seat over the rough-riding bogie, with a scruffy oaf on the cheapest advance ticket in the next seat, next to the toilet on the Penzance > Aberdeen from which she's bailing at Montrose for Balmoral, with 12 or so hours of accumulated commoner's plop in the festering retention tank, and the buffet car having long since run out of quail's eggs and peacock's tongues, and now having to make do with a mini tube of Pringles.

She might wonder if all aspects of commoners' lives are like this.

mini tube of Pringles you say - lucky girl - they must have held some back for her!

 

[lewisf]

Hard to imagine what the Queen would make of riding on a Voyager. Crammed into a seat over the rough-riding bogie, with a scruffy oaf on the cheapest advance ticket in the next seat, next to the toilet on the Penzance > Aberdeen from which she's bailing at Montrose for Balmoral, with 12 or so hours of accumulated commoner's plop in the festering retention tank, and the buffet car having long since run out of quail's eggs and peacock's tongues, and now having to make do with a mini tube of Pringles.

She might wonder if all aspects of commoners' lives are like this.

She went on a normal service to Cambridge on a 365 last year (although in 1st class)

 

[sprinterguy]

Although I suppose if anyone can get any loco she wants working a train, it's the Queen. Which begs the question why she doesn't have deltics. Or pay for 40145 to get repaired so she can have that.

She got plenty of miles behind 47834/5 (later 47798/9) before the change in traction. There used to be a regular 73/1 (later 73/2) that hauled the royal train on the Southern Region as well, so let's face it, the pair of 67s is just Queenies' next move in covering all the loco classes

 

[4SRKT]

So our Queen, the head of state that we're all supposed to respect, is a duff basher???

 

[junglejames]

Although I suppose if anyone can get any loco she wants working a train, it's the Queen. Which begs the question why she doesn't have deltics. Or pay for 40145 to get repaired so she can have that.

Oh the thought of it!
Do you think she sticks her head out the window for a bit of fresh air as well?!! Can just imagine standing at Reading or wherever, and the Royal Train comes through, with the queens head sticking out of one of the droplights!!
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So our Queen, the head of state that we're all supposed to respect, is a duff basher???

Thats why one is meant to respect her!
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She went on a normal service to Cambridge on a 365 last year (although in 1st class)

A 365 is one thing. They are luxurious compared to a voyager.
She knows what Voyagers are like, thats why she always sticks to her own train!!

 

[MadCommuter]

She got plenty of miles behind 47834/5 (later 47798/9) before the change in traction. There used to be a regular 73/1 (later 73/2) that hauled the royal train on the Southern Region as well, so let's face it, the pair of 67s is just Queenies' next move in covering all the loco classes

73142 'Broadlands' I believe, but can't recall its renumbering, perhaps 73201 or 73212?

 

[NSEFAN]

If she really were a crank, she would have ordered her train to be LoadHaul 37s/56s, perhaps even a Valenta HST?

 

[33056]

If she really were a crank, she would have ordered her train to be LoadHaul 37s/56s, perhaps even a Valenta HST?

She has had plenty of other stuff in the past; 20s to Aberystwyth (due to weight restrictions), a 56 round the Durham coast (no idea why!), 31s, 73s (usually "Broadlands"), 87s (Usually "Royal Sovereign") and that's just what I can remember off the top of my head. She has also scratched in 67029 at least of the other 67s as it was named by the Duke of Edinburgh to celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary,( see here )

 

[87015]

She has had plenty of other stuff in the past; 20s to Aberystwyth (due to weight restrictions), a 56 round the Durham coast (no idea why!), 31s, 73s (usually "Broadlands"), 87s (Usually "Royal Sovereign") and that's just what I can remember off the top of my head. She has also scratched in 67029 at least of the other 67s as it was named by the Duke of Edinburgh to celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary,( see here )

87004 was the preffered Royal electric I thought, although no doubt many worked it. As an aside it must be one of only a few engines to be able to claim having powered the Royal Trains of two different countries after the recent Bulgarian railtour formed of their equivalent?

 

[DarloRich]

One wonders if her Majesty is a rare track basher?

 

[HST Power]

One wonders if her Majesty is a rare track basher?

You never know. Life has plenty of surprises.

 

[sprinterguy]

One wonders if her Majesty is a rare track basher?

Well the Royal Train gets stabled overnight in many obscure loops and sidings that probably don't see any other passenger trains normally, although that's usually when the Queen is off somewhere else doing other things.

Given how long she's been on the throne, it's no surprise that she's seen a good range of traction over the years, and for that matter must have travelled around on the old royal train as well as the current one!

I've also got a picture of the Royal Train being hauled by a "Warship", and I'm sure I've seen one of the train with a 40 for haulage, but a 56 round the Durham Coast seems strange: A no-heat tour? One is not amused

 

[4SRKT]

What do you think her views on the coffin stock vs pressure ventilation are?

 

[33056]

...... A no-heat tour? One is not amused

One has one's own genny van