2-791-575 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

King Louis Philippe entering the railway station, 1844. Visit of the French king Louis Philippe to Britain: 'The train started from Gosport with the King, Prince Albert, and the distinguished personages who accompanied them, at eleven o'clock, and arrived at Farnborough station at half-past twelve o'clock, where carriages were in waiting, in which they immediately went off at a rapid pace towards Windsor [Castle]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.