THE QUEEN'S RAILWAY CARRIAGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 11

THE QUEEN'S RAILWAY CARRIAGE

The Queen's latest saloon carriage is 67ft- in length, and is solidly built of teak. A writer in the London Graphic describes it as containing two suites of rooms, being divided up into a dayealoon, a dining-saloon (convertible into a sleeping-saloon), and a dressing-room for the Queen, with a sleeping-saloon and a dresbing-room for Princess Victoria, in addition to apartments for attendants. The saloon is, of course, lit throughout by electricity, ■ and a novel syst,em of ventilation keeps the air fresh and at a pleasant temperature, the nir being purified by being drawn through ;i tank of fibre matting saturated with water, and heated in winter time before distribution to the various compai Lments. Noise — that bane of railway travel — has been eliminated as much as possible by the use of thick felt and india-rubber -filling wherever practicable, notably in the corridor, which is covered with the latter material. The interior of the saloon is panelled from floor to ceiling, and is all enamelled ; whito. The furniture is of inlaid harewood upholstered in pale flowered silk with a red Wilton pile carpet, and tho i metal fittings arc finished in mercury gilt. The artificial lighting is obtained by the reflection from ' the ceiling of electric line lights concealed behind the cornice at either side of the saloon, supplemented by electric light brackets fixed below the cornice. Th& diningsaloon and the dressing-room are decorated and equipped in the same style as thesaloon, save that the- furniture is in inlaid satinwood, nnd Princess Victoria's dressing and sleeping rooms arc designed to match the Queen's suite, with the exception tnat the carpets arc. in grey 'Wilton pil». Two papers by Ouida, ptu chased while the author was in the prime of life with the stipulation that they were not to be printed until after her death, will appear forthwith in Lippincott's Magazine. "Shall Women Vote?" will be printed in tho May iaeue and '* Love v. Avarice " in a eubsequent number.