Luxury 1930s train the Northern Belle makes a stop in Derbyshire to celebrate coronation

It was a right Royal occasion with red, white and blue bunting lining the gleaming 1930s Pullman-style carriages and Union flags decorating the tables.

Many passengers clamoured to be photographed in front of the locomotive’s headboard which proudly proclaimed ‘King Charles III. God Save the King’.

And all raised a celebration glass of champagne to toast the new King and his Queen Camilla.

A Northern Belle spokesman said: “There was a great carnival atmosphere during the journey. It was a right royal occasion – a Belle of a Coronation aboard Britain’s most luxurious train.”