3-034-826 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Queen's Visit to the Prince of Wales: arrival at Wolferton Station, near Sandringham, 1871. Queen Victoria travels by train from Windsor Castle to Norfolk to visit her son '...in his illness at Sandringham...The special train consisted of an engine and six carriages, the two Royal saloons belonging to the London and North-Western Railway Company being placed in the middle of the train. The route over the South-Western line was via Staines, Ashford, Feltham, Hounslow, and Brentford to the Kew junction of the North London line...Thence her Majesty travelled over the North London Railway to Victoria Park, and so on to the Great Eastern Railway, the journey being continued via Cambridge and King's Lynn to Wolferton, where his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh met her Majesty, who at once entered the private carriage of the Prince of Wales and proceeded to Sandringham, arriving there about half-past three in the afternoon. The Queen remained at Sandringham till noon on the Friday. She then took leave of the Prince, and set out on her return journey to Windsor...The departure of the Queen was looked upon as a hopeful fact, in so far as it implied a belief that the Prince was considered by his physicians to be out of immediate danger'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.