After 125 years, the Royal Train is being decommissioned as part of the need to cut costs

After 125 years, the Royal Train is being decommissioned as part of the need to cut costs. Not that the British royal family is gradually bidding farewell to its old spendthrift habits; it is simply that the train matters less to Charles than it did to Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, who travelled on it often. The Queen, for that matter, used ordinary rail services for private journeys, to Sandringham, for example, and during official engagements that required travel by train she visited on the Royal Train

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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Frederic Leighton

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After 125 years, the Royal Train is being decommissioned as part of the need to cut costs

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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