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[[<!--IMAGE FILE-->File:LMS_798_20150307319290_20170617.jpg |thumb|centre|300px|link=<!--PAGE TO LINK TO--> LMS 798 Royal Coach Ruston and Hornsby 165hp Diesel Shunter 319290| The Royal Saloon of King George VI 319290 is on display in [[The Engine House]]. In 1941 the LMS built two Royal Saloon carriages for King George VI longest serving of a number of Ruston and HHornsby 165 h.Mp. Queen Elizabeth (later diesel shunters acquired by the Queen Mother), to enable them to travel around the country safely during the Second World WarSVR. Each coach was fitted with an armour-plated steel roof It arrived in 1972 and side panelling mounted saw many years' service on a steel welded frameworkP. The windows Way duties before these were also fitted with armour plated shutteringtaken over by more powerful locomotives. The two Royal Saloons were the heaviest railway carriages to run It now acts as yard shunter in Britain, weighing 56 tons apiece and were also unusually long, being almost 70 ft in length[[Bewdley Down Yard]]. [[<!--PAGE TO LINK TO--> LMS 798 Royal Coach Ruston and Hornsby 165hp Diesel Shunter 319290| (Full article...)]]]]
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