Victoria (TV programme)

[neonison]

In the penultimate episode of ITV 1's "Victoria" the young queen is seen riding in an open coach behind Manchester MOSI's "Planet" locomotive.

Is there any evidence whatsoever of such an episode and where was the sequence, in open countryside filmed? The castle scenes were filmed at Raby Castle, Co. Durham but I'm not familiar with anything that fits the railway bill nearby.

 

[ilkestonian]

In the penultimate episode of ITV 1's "Victoria" the young queen is seen riding in an open coach behind Manchester MOSI's "Planet" locomotive.

Is there any evidence whatsoever of such an episode and where was the sequence, in open countryside filmed? The castle scenes were filmed at Raby Castle, Co. Durham but I'm not familiar with anything that fits the railway bill nearby.

Its a simplified and adapted version of the facts.

Albert was enthusiastic about railways and had travelled on trains before Queen Victoria made her first journey. His first journey was presumably on a broad gauge train, from Slough to Paddington and Queen Victoria's first journey was from Windsor to Paddington.

Apparently, the line used to film the footage shown last night was the Mountsorrel branch of the GCR.

 

[Minilad]

So was Albert the first steam basher then?

 

[Phil.]

I wouldn't take anything in the series as factual.
The actress playing Victoria is quite pretty. Victoria was as plain as a pikestaff.
In the series Victoria is speaking English in a received pronunciation. She actually spoke English with a pronounced German accent - she was after all 100% pedigree German.

 

[neonison]

Thanks Phil. Yes, I know Daisy Goodwin's script borders on the fanciful and the accents somewhat off the mark; I was more curious to learn of Victoria's gricing history. I quite like the sound of Albert. A bit of an enthusiast for industry and the railways. I understand The Great Exhibition of 1851 was his project.

 

[Busaholic]

There was me getting all excited that someone had made a series about that place at the north end of Vauxhall Bridge Road : I'd have watched that, costume dramas no thanks.

 

[Calthrop]

Albert was enthusiastic about railways and had travelled on trains before Queen Victoria made her first journey. His first journey was presumably on a broad gauge train, from Slough to Paddington and Queen Victoria's first journey was from Windsor to Paddington.

So was Albert the first steam basher then?

One gathers that in principle, he took to the idea; but in a rather cautious way. He is reported to have said, after one of his early rail journeys: "Not so fast next time, Mr. Conductor, please".

 

[WatcherZero]

Victoria was supposedly a great fan of the railways for travel because she got very coach sick. Again alluded to in that episode. It was the railways speeding travel that allowed her to spend so much time in her beloved Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

I'd never imagined people getting stagecoach-sick; though in other ways, it must indeed have been a pretty uncomfortable mode of travel. You live and learn !

 

[Bevan Price]

Victoria was supposedly a great fan of the railways for travel because she got very coach sick. Again alluded to in that episode. It was the railways speeding travel that allowed her to spend so much time in her beloved Scotland.

Although there was once a story that she considered an early train was "too fast", and asked for it to go a bit slower. Presumably, she eventually accepted higher speeds.

 

[TheKnightWho]

Although there was once a story that she considered an early train was "too fast", and asked for it to go a bit slower. Presumably, she eventually accepted higher speeds.

When she opened the Welwyn viaduct she was too afraid to go over it, so instead of going over it she got into a coach, went around, and then got back into the train at the other end which had successfully crossed over.

Presumably she got over this fear in later life.