Just think. If someone in the Royal Family got hooked on garden railroading.
I’m sure they could find a castle somewhere to build a great railroad!
How do you know they haven’t Doug LOL
With all the acreage at their disposal I would be surprised is someone didn’t have something of a railroad either now or in the past. Sandringham, Balmoral, Highgrove and Windsor have plenty of space. I think a large scale railroad around the grassed moat of the Tower Of London would look great, another tourist attraction and money spinner maybe?
Maybe I could suggest Kalmbach send a few complimentary copies of Garden Railways to The Palace.
Garden Rail. Gotta keep it proper British stuff, after all.
It was a garden railroad at Woburn Abbey that got us started in the hobby in the mid 70s. I haven’t a clue if it’s still there or not. I’ve seen travel shows that have been shot there, but no mention of the trains. For that matter, I don’t think we even have home movies of the display from our trip. Odd, given the impression it made on dad. When we saw the trains later that trip for sale at Hamley’s (big London toy store), that was it.
Later,
K
Doug they have one.
Its 1:1 scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Train
why go Large when you can go full scale. 
Yea what Geoff said!___
Yeah, but it’s one of them smelly dismal things…
tac
tac Foley said:
Yeah, but it's one of them smelly dismal things........................tac
Watch your tongue!!
tac this one looks like a steamer to me?
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/geogeorge/_forumfiles/royaltrain1.jpg)
they might not use it today but they did at one time.
The present loco is Prince Edward - a Type 47 dismal…they don’t all wear Beefeater uniform with spats and derby hats here either. And some of them even have not only glass in the windows of their houses, but, I’m reliably informed, electrical lighting, too, far-fetched tho’ it seems.
If any of you had watched TV yesterday you might well have noticed that they also have at least four aeroplanes that appear to be propelled through the air by something other than propellers, although I’m much heartened to note that the REAL Royal Air Force was there to lend an air of suitable elegance to the post-nuptial arrangments in the form of a Hurricane and a Spitfire and a late-war Lancaster, all of whom were representative of their many brethren that took part in the recent world conflict.
tac
Now if we could only get you to dive on the right side of the road.
Betcha didn’t know that the BBMF Lancaster was built at Rockliffe plant in Ottawa!!
Yup, only two Lancasters flying in the world, and both are Canuckian!
Makes ya feel proud, eh?
tac
Geoff George said:We do, i fact, Geoff LOL
Now if we could only get you to dive on the right side of the road. :)
KE1 is very much in use today:
I thought it was great to see that flyover.