Proudly carrying its coronation and 120th ‘birthday’ headboard, Peckett Jurassic arrives at Walls Lane station on the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway. CHRIS BATES/LCLR
HERITAGE railways big and small celebrated the crowning of King Charles III with special events over the coronation bank holiday weekend.
The Talyllyn Railway – taken over by volunteers in 1951 and accordingly the only preserved railway that was part of the coronations of the last two monarchs – laid on two special trains on Saturday, May 6, the day of the coronation of King Charles.
The event was well-attended, with visitors from all over the world. The first coronation train departed at
