NOVEL ROYAL TRAIN.
KING AND QUEEN. ON LIGHT RAILWAY. The King and Queen had a novel experience the other day, when they rode in an old-fashioned railway coach drawn by an engine which had done service for many years on the Taff Vale Railway, in Wales. Their Majesties were visiting the railway train centre in Longmoor, where men of the Royal Engineers are trained in railway -constructional work. The light railway on which the King and Queen travelled for about 1 J- miles was the only way of reaching the scene of a demonstration by a mechanised brigade of the Royal Artillery. The guns, drawn by tractors, negotiated the roughest country round about Aldershot, and climbed slopes of very nearly one in three before going into action. , Before proceeding to Longmoor the King saw the Ist Guards Brigade on a rough march, and took the salute as they passed. The King and Queen also went to Bordon, where they saw the 25th Field Brigade of the Royal Artillery carry out field gun practice. On the return journey an engine named Kitchener drew the single coach in which the King and Queen rode.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17466, 28 July 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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192NOVEL ROYAL TRAIN. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17466, 28 July 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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