3-016-984 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New railway carriage built for the use of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the Great Eastern Railway, 1864. 'A representation of the new and elegant saloon carriage, built expressly for the use of the Prince and Princess of Wales, in their journeys to Sandringham and back by the Great Eastern Railway, is engraved in our pages this week. Their Royal Highnesses, with the infant Prince, attended by their ordinary suite, travelled by this conveyance from the Bishops'gate terminus to the Wolferton station on the occasion of their last visit to Norfolk, when the Prince expressed himself much pleased with the arrangements made by the railway company, and especially with this beautiful carriage. It has been constructed in the workshops of the company at Stratford, by Mr. G. Attock, superintendent of the carriage department, from the designs of Mr. R. Sinclair, the chief engineer. Its total length is 26 ft., width 8 ft., and height 7 ft. 3 in. The interior is divided into three compartments - ante-room, saloon, and retiring room. The length of the saloon is 12ft. 6 in., with doors leading to ante and retiring rooms. The fittings and decorations, by Mr. Thomas Fox, of 93, Bishopsgate Within, are very rich'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.