75 Years of Royal Train Secrets to be Revealed on May 4th

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Wolverton Works opened for business in 1838. This makes it the oldest and longest continually operating Railway Works in the World and it will celebrate its 175th anniversary on 17 September 2013.

The associated Wolverton 175 celebrations commence with a unique Royal Train event on May 4 at the Milton Keynes Museum. The Royal Train has been kept at Wolverton Works since the 1860s and therefore there is a long and interesting history attached to the place.

The anniversary year is being celebrated with many events which will reflect the two aspects of Wolverton Works, the railway side and the local social history created by the very first railway town. This was built by the London and Birmingham Railway (LBR) who ran the first long distance intercity route in the world from 1838. The LBR became the London and North Western Railway in a merger a few years later which itself became the London Midland & Scottish Railway in 1923.

75 years of Royal Train secrets to be revealed on May 4th | Rail.co.uk 

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