Portuguese Royal Train in the Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht

Yesterday...

I visited the exhibition "Royal Class,vorstelijk reizen" at the Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht, specially to see...:-)

The Portuguese Royal Train (Royal Wagon of D. Maria Pia, Locomotive of King D. Luis I and the Prince's Wagon) :-)

From Spoorweg Museum

From Spoorweg Museum

The Royal Wagon of D. Maria Pia was given to her by her father, King Vítor Emanuel II of Italy, when she married with King Luis I of Portugal, in 1862.

From Spoorweg Museum

From Spoorweg Museum

From Spoorweg Museum

Maria Pia of Savoy (Torino,14 March 1847 - Stupinigi,Parco Reale,5 July 1911) was also known in Portugal as "angel of charity" or "mother of the poor" for her compassion and work on social causes.

From Spoorweg Museum

The locomotive D.Luiz is unique in the world and has won the golden medal in the London International Exhibition during the Industrial Revolution.

From Spoorweg Museum

King Dom Luis I (Lisbon, 31 October 1838 – 19 October 1889 in Cascais) had a calm and pacifying temperament.
He was a Consitutional Monarch model, respectful of public freedom.
During his reign, some of his acomplishments deserve special mention:
the beginning of the Lisboa and Leixões maritime port construction;
the extension of the road and railroad network;
the construction of Crystal Palace, nowadays called the Rosa Mota Pavillion;
the abolishing of the death penalty for civil crimes;
the abolishing of slavery in the Portuguese Kingdom;
the publishing of the first portuguese Civil Code.

From Spoorweg Museum

You can visit this exhibition until the 05th of September 2010.

More photos tomorrow ;-)