2-716-514 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Queen Victoria's first train journey, from Slough to Paddington, June 13, 1842', (1901). Victoria (1819-1901) travelled on the Great Western Railway from Slough in Berkshire to Paddington in London, in a train pulled by the new steam engine 'Phlegethon'. She wrote the following day that the journey took half an hour, and was 'free from dust and crowd and heat, and I am quite charmed with it'. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]