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English: 20 October 1988: In 1982 British Rail and Madame Tussauds restored the old Windsor and Eton station, creating an exhibition called Royalty and Railways (It was later renamed Royalty and Empire). The exhibition recalled a magnificent Royal occasion, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, using displays of wax models and an audio-visual show featuring Audio-Anamatronic figures (the first of their kind seen in Europe at that time).

After entering the exhibition via the ticket office, visitors would be greeted by a scene on the platform depicting the arrival of The Royal Train, complete with figures of station staff and a full size replica train.

A full-size replica steam locomotive, GWR 3041 named The Queen was built at Steamtown, Carnforth, and combined with an ex-LBSCR tender (in later life, a sludge tanker at Guildford loco depot) and fittings from a GWR tender. The locomotive's bogie and rear wheels are also from another GWR tender, however the large driving wheels were only half complete and did not sit directly on the rails. This allowed the loco to be rolled into position when the exhibition was built. The replica loco was completed in December 1982 and delivered by road. Two mobile cranes hoisted it onto the viaduct, and then it was rolled into position on temporary track. Tussauds fitted smoke and steam generators, so steam was emitted from the cab, whistles, safety valves and smoke from the chimney. A sound unit was also fitted. A couple of carriages were also used to form the replica of the Royal Train. Directly behind the loco was No.229 and was a replica coach, mounted on an ex-BR 'BG' Full Brake underframe and containing wax figures of various royals. The second coach was the original Royal Day Saloon No.9002 and was rescued for the exhibition from a cliff top in Aberporth, Wales.

After leaving the platform, visitors could see the restored royal waiting room with figures of Queen Victoria and The Prince and Princess of Wales, before entering 'The Royal Parade' area. A walkway was constructed up and around the canopy, allowing visitors to view figures of the royal party exiting the waiting room and The Queen boarding her Ascot landau. Over seventy wax figures of 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards formed part of this scene.

The last part of the exhibit was the 'Sixty Glorious Years' audio-visual show. The show outlined the growth of Great Britain using slides and projections, before the screen sank to reveal moving animatronic figures of some of the great personalities of the Victorian age, including Queen Victoria herself.

The exhibition closed in the late 1990s, and almost all of the exhibits were taken away. The Locomotive 'The Queen' was too expensive to remove, and so rather than being cut up, it was incorporated as a feature of a restaurant on the concourse. The tender – the only original (and historic) part of the replica engine – was sold to a scrap dealer and cut up, although the springs and axleboxes were salvaged for use in the replica LBSCR Atlantic project at the Bluebell Railway, and part of one side was rescued by the Slough & Windsor Railway Society, where it is now on display. The original Royal Saloon No.9002 was preserved at STEAM, Swindon. It is not known what happened to the replica coach.