CHAPTER FIVE“This is very exciting!” Quenella enthused.
“Do you mean the train?” asked Rex, who was sitting opposite her.
“No, I mean being able to see the countryside. It is just what I have been looking forward to.”
They were travelling North-West to Lucknow and the Viceroy with unusual generosity had provided them with two coaches from his special train.
Rex knew that the train had been built for the Prince of Wales’s visit in 1875 and by now it was beginning to fall apart.
It consisted of twelve cream and gold coaches hauled by two steam engines and when the Viceroy used it to move about the country, civilian and military secretaries, two doctors and some hundred other members of the staff were housed on board.
A pilot engine ran ahead and the whole length of the line was guarded
