Charles Turns Train Driver During Visit to Banchory, Scotland

The Prince of Wales tried his hand at being a train driver during his Monday visit to the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society in Milton of Crathes, Banchory (a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland).

Charles met with the Society’s volunteers and train driver James West before he donned a pair of custom overalls over his kilt and stepped into the cab of a steam train that his The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation assisted in restoring after it was hit by vandalism in 2015.

“His driving was very good…We chatted on the way down the line about how he’d travelled on the line as a child,” Mr West said of the Prince, who is known as the Duke of Rothesay whilst in Scotland.

The Duke of Rothesay visited the Royal Deeside Railway today and was able to drive a refurbished train which was damaged by vandals in 2015. pic.twitter.com/aJJ4EJ8VQ0

— Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) April 24, 2017

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