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Royal train to be cut in Palace cost-saving measure (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be replaced by helicopters. I despair

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Wrong timeline.

Train has been replaced with other transport. Including high use of helicopters. Over the last several years. But more so since ERII death.

So now it is just a cost sink to store and maintain.

That said. If we ignore shutting the family down. (Honestly we are just now starting to see a majority support for that.) So any effort to do so in the past. Would have failed or been undemocratic. But most of us older folks expected more support for removal post ERII death then we actually see now.

So accepting the job/roll existed.

There are not many ways to safely transport such figures around efficiently. Even if trains were still used. The last mile issue is expanded hugely for public figures. Both due to the huge increase in urban traffic. And lack of smaller stations post Beaching.

That said. I sorta like the image of Charles III strapped to multiple drones. Paradise PD Like.