Italy's New Royal Train.

Royal trains are always objects of intense interest, alike for railwaymen and the general public. The magnificence of the new Royal train constructed for use on the Italian State Railways by the Fiat Company, of Turin, has never before been approached. The train is composed of three cars (one for the King, one for the Queen, and a dining saloon), and really resembles nothing so much as a wonderful palace on wheels. Each car is 64ft. 7 1/2in. long, exclusive of buffers. In each of been constructed a vestibule, a parlour, a bedroom, a lavatory, two or three compartments for the attendants and aide-de-camp, and accommodation for servants. In the dining-car is a large dining saloon with a table 23ft. long, and 20 chairs, as well as a vestibule, a pantry, and a private retiring room for the King.

The train is painted blue on the exterior, and the cars are emblazoned with the Royal crown and the mystic inscription “R.I.C.,” which, being translated, means that the train may travel over all Continental railway systems. In the interior of the three Royal cars lavish use has been made of gold, silks, brocades, bronze, enamels, tapestries, carpets and precious woods. The Queen's parlour forms a perfect picture. It is furnished with a settee, a writing table and two small armchairs, and is decorated in pale blue. The adjoining bedroom is in yellow. There is an austere magnificence in the dining-car, a riot of colour and symbols, a triumph in red and gold. In the centre of the ceiling, gleaming like a star, is the Royal crown. It is surrounded by motifs of grain, vine and flowers-signifying plenty, fertility and poetry. Red velvet tapestries, interwoven with gold and with the Cross of Savoy in silver, crimson curtains and artistically cut crystal lamps, complete the majesty of the saloon down the centre of which runs a mahogany table, so highly polished as to reflect every detail of the ceiling as sharply as in a mirror. Twenty square chairs in worked leather stand around the table, and a magnificent carpet covers the floor. Altogether, the new Italian Royal train certainly represents the last word in the railway coach builder's art.