...err "....built in 1831...." should be 1881
Indeed. It would have been very prescient of the those thinking of building the
GWR▸ , to construct a standard gauge saloon for VIPs 2 years before the company was founded and 4 years before they decided on broad gauge.
Terrible journalism from the
BBC» . The video makes it clear it was built in 1881. Did the writer of the article not bother to watch the video?
Hopefully they'll get round to editing the article at some point. But for posterity I'll quote the original:
Great Western's 182-year-old royal carriage restored
A Victorian railway carriage once used by royalty has been restored in Cornwall.
The saloon car was built for VIPs by the Great Western Railway in Swindon in 1831.
Although the carriage was not part of the royal train, it was used privately by the then Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
As John Danks reports, it has taken five years for a skilled craftsmen at the Bodmin and Wenford Steam Railway to restore the carriage to its original splendour.
On final error. The article writer starts by saying the carriage is 'Victorian'. Had it really been built in 1831 it would've been Georgian. William IV was on throne but he is regarded as being the last monarch of the Georgian era.
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