The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. Buckingham Palace says King Charles III has accepted that it’s time to decommission the train, whose history dates back to Queen Victoria,

Britain’s royal train service has been deemed too expensive, so now it’s being ditched in favor of helicopters and scheduled rail journeys. Not everyone is happy about it.

It's the end of an era. The Royal Household released its Sovereign Grant Report for 2024-2025 on June 30, sharing that the royal train—a longtime favorite of the late Queen Elizabeth—will be decommissioned after "a thorough review into its use and value for money.