(From BBC website)
The royal train has been opened to the public in an attempt to dispel its lavish image.
The carriages, housed in a rail works shed near Wolverton station, Buckinghamshire, will carry the Queen to every corner of Britain during her Golden Jubilee tour.
What will the queen be using on her travels around the country during her golden Jubilee because it is thought that the queens train carriage is very lavish. Director of royal travel Tim Hewlett said: "There is a perception the train is a bit like the Orient Express. "But there are not many bathroom furnishings you could not get in Homebase or B&Q."
En-suite bathrooms have pink plastic baths and sinks with Pears soap in dishes, plain mahogany toilet seats and clear plastic shower curtains. The Queen herself uses Pears Soap.
A compartment used as an office by various private secretaries has a fax machine and telephone bearing the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's extension numbers.
A framed senior railcard in the name of the Duke of Edinburgh adorns a wall
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Two battered red despatch boxes used for the Queen's correspondence lie on a desk, next to a plastic Union flag.
A 2002 copy of Who's Who is also at hand.
The sleeping and office accommodation has pastel carpets and check curtains.
And the Buckingham Palace staff dining car is laid out in the style of a first-class train carriage.
Most rooms contain bottles of Tesco's Perthshire mountain spring water.
The two locomotives, Prince William and Prince Henry, are used for other duties when the royal train is not being used.
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