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Description: | The royal family used this sumptuously furnished waiting room at Paddington station when their royal train was delayed. It was kept ready specifically for this purpose.
This room was part of the original design of the station, which shows how keen the Great Western Railway was to encourage royal patronage. The waiting rooms were used until the beginning of the Second World War by the royal family.
During the war, the waiting rooms were used for a number of purposes, including a first-aid facility and a storage area. Since restoration, they have been used as first-class waiting rooms since 1985. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Power and Politics Transport | Temporal: | 06 Dec 1929 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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