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[[<!--IMAGE FILE-->File:Hampton_Loade_Underbridge_20150528LMS_798_20150307.jpg |thumb|centre|300px|link=<!--PAGE TO LINK TO--> Underbridge at Hampton Loade LMS 798 Royal Coach | Bridge 23 The Royal Saloon of King George VI is an underbridge immediately North of Hampton Loade station which allows on display in [[The Engine House]]. In 1941 the LMS built two Royal Saloon carriages for King George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth (later the small access road Queen Mother), to Hampton Loade village enable them to pass underneath travel around the country safely during the Severn Valley RailwaySecond World War. Each coach was fitted with an armour-plated steel roof and side panelling mounted on a steel welded framework. The girders of the bridge windows were also fitted with armour plated shuttering. The two Royal Saloons were replaced by the SVR heaviest railway carriages to run in 1975 as part of a programme of work to upgrade the line Britain, weighing 56 tons apiece and increase the permitted axle weight of locomotives using itwere also unusually long, being almost 70 ft in length. [[<!--PAGE TO LINK TO--> Underbridge at Hampton Loade LMS 798 Royal Coach | (Full article...)]]]]
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